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 Institute, 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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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
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Vivek A. Mehta, MD
- Neurosurgeon, Chief of Service, Hemorrhagic Stroke and Epilepsy Neurosurgical Services
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Daniel S. Yanni, MD
- Neurosurgery/Spine R&D
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Lauren Kim, M.S.N., N.P.-C., R.N.
- Hoag Neurosciences Nurse Navigator