Meet The Team
The center brings together a range of nationally renowned specialists who provide the latest in holistic and inclusive care management options to treat a range of spinal conditions including low back pain, spinal stenosis, spinal deformities, spinal tumors, as well as scoliosis in children and adults.
The multidisciplinary team includes pain management and acute rehabilitation specialists, physical and occupational therapists, dieticians, an intensive care unit and pre-eminent, board-certified neurosurgeons who share a treatment philosophy focused on a conservative, preventative approach. At the Hoag Spine Center, experts coordinate and support the patient journey, freeing the patient from navigating the unknown on their own.
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Burak M. Ozgur, M.D.
- Medical Director, Chief of Service, Neurosurgical Spine Program
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Adam S. Kanter, MD
- Associate Executive Medical Director at Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute
- Chief of Neurosurgery, Hoag Specialty Clinic
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Charles J. De Mesa, DO
- Chief of Interventional Pain, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Hoag Spine Center
- Director of Chronic Pain & Neuropathy Program, Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute
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Keyvan Esmaeili, MD
- Medical Director, Fudge Family Acute Rehabilitation Unit
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Pawel P. Jankowski, MD
- Neurosurgery, Spine Scoliosis
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Robert G. Louis Jr, M.D.
- Empower360 Endowed Chair in Skull Base and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
- Program Director, Skull Base and Pituitary Tumor Program
- Brain & Spine Tumor Surgery
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Vivek A. Mehta, MD
- Neurosurgeon, Chief of Service, Hemorrhagic Stroke and Epilepsy Neurosurgical Services
- Brain & Spine Tumor Surgery
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Aaron J. Przybysz, MD
- Pain Medicine
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Matthew J. Reed, MD
- Chief of Inpatient Pain and Outpatient Addiction Services
- Medical Director, SolMar Residential Program
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Shawn Zardouz, MD
- Pain Medicine
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Gina Gianelli Duel, M.S.P.A.S., P.A.-C.
- Physician Assistant, Neurosurgery and Spine
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Janneinne Le, P.A.-C.
- Physician Assistant, Neurosurgery and Spine
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Lauren Kim, M.S.N., N.P.-C., R.N.
- Nurse Navigator, Neurosurgery, Spine
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Alissa Matthews, M.A.
- Spine Care Navigator, Neurosurgery, Spine