Portrait of Anna Wolff, a white person with short dark curly hair wearing golden round glasses, a black KN95 mask, a short-sleeved purple floral button-up shirt, and green pants. They are sitting with one leg up and one leg down on a treatment table.

Anna Wolff, DO

(they/them)

I am an osteopathic physician board certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine who treats a wide variety of conditions. I have treated a range of patients including infants in NICU, pregnant/postpartum parents, adolescents, other physicians, and elder adults. I have a specific passion for helping patients address chronic illness/chronic pain and the complex ways that our body, mind, and spirit interact with these conditions. In addition to a wide array of common issues of the muscles, bones & nervous system, I am especially interested in and have worked in the past with: Long COVID/PACS, ME/CFS, hEDS/HSD, Fibromyalgia, POTS/Dysautonomia, PTSD, and somaticized trauma.

​Education:
I graduated from A.T. Still University College of Osteopathic Medicine in AZ in 2018, and then completed one year of Family Medicine Residency before transitioning to St Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, NY where I completed my specialty training in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (NMM) in 2021. In addition to a busy clinical practice in residency, I provided treatments to patients in the hospital suffering from conditions of varying degrees of severity including post-surgical care, intensive-care, and critical COVID infection. I have also provided care to newborns and postpartum parents in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Anna's arms and hands are visible from an ankle behind their shoulder, on either side of the person recieving care, who is a Black man with short hair and a black KN95 mask, wearing a multicolored pink, black and yellow shirt.

Professional Growth: 
I am passionate about improving the quality and access of healthcare. I regularly attend training in my field and related scientific seminars and conferences to keep my knowledge up to date. Additionally, I feel strongly about educating the next generation of physicians and healers, and regularly take students to work with me in the office. I am also an adjunct faculty at Touro University California and collaborate with several local San Francisco businesses. 

Practice Lineage: 
The teachers who I trained under in official and unofficial capacities are many, but those who were most influential to me and my manual medicine work are Robert Woodbury DO, Tony West DO, Hugh Ettlinger DO, and Denise Burns DO.  Dr. Ettlinger studied under Anne Wales DO, who herself worked under William G. Sutherland DO.  Dr. Sutherland, the creator of Cranial, was a direct student of A.T. Still DO MD, the founder of Osteopathy. In addition to Dr. Still's medical training at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Kansas City, it is likely he was inspired by the healing practices of the Shawnee tribe where he lived as a young man, and several osteopathic techniques are similar to the nearby Cherokee's manual healing arts.

Research Publications & Poster Presentations

Management of COVID-induced Acute Respiratory Failure Requiring Intubation with Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine—by Anna Wolff DO and Hugh Ettlinger DO FAAO. 

Mar 18, 2021—AAO Poster Competition. LINK

Photo Quiz: Eye Changes After Recent International Travel—by Nathan Kittle MD, Christina Lierman DO, Anna Wolff.

American Family Physician—2017 Dec 15;96(12):807-808. LINK

Osteopathic Evaluation and Treatment Considerations Post-Concussion in Children and Adolescents: A Case Report—by Anna Wolff DO and Reem Abu-Sbai DO.

June 2020—NYCOMEC Poster Competition.