Other Locations: Santa Barbara, Marina Del Rey, Tarzana, Valencia

Specialty 1: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry

Specialty 2: Pain Management - Medicine

Keywords/Search Terms: Double board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine. Expert in cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine injury. Disc herniation, radiculolopathy, spinal stenosis, facet arthropathy, sacroiliac dysfunction, post laiminectomy pain. Whiplash and cervical strain. Shoulder, knee, hip and ankle injury. Post traumatic musculoskeletal pain. Chronic Pain Syndromes. CRPS, myofascial pain. Peripheral nerve injury, entrapment neuropathy. Opioid and non operative medication management.

Medical School: American University of Antigua

License(s): California, Arizona

Years in Practice: 7

• 8 years performing IMEs
• 15 IMEs performed
• Deposed/Testified 5 times

Additional Information

I perform the procedures I am asked to evaluate. Active interventional practice performing epidural steroid injections, medial branch blocks, radiofrequency ablation, joint and bursal injections, viscosupplementation, and spinal cord stimulator trials. This supports opinions on whether a course of interventional treatment was indicated, appropriately sequenced, and medically necessary, based on current practice rather than record review alone. Geographic coverage. Examinations conducted at four Southern California locations: Marina del Rey, Tarzana, Valencia, and Santa Barbara. Covers Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties from a single retention. Turnaround. Reports delivered within 3–5 business days of examination where records are received complete, indexed, and searchable in advance. Expedited availability for deposition and trial-driven deadlines. Scope of engagement. Retained by plaintiff, defense, carriers, and third-party IME vendors. Identical rates regardless of retaining party and regardless of the opinion reached. No fee contingent on outcome. Record review without examination. Available for causation review, treatment-necessity review, billing and utilization review, surveillance video review, prior-report rebuttal, and life care plan critique. Volume records. Routine handling of multi-thousand-page productions with indexed chronology and source citation to Bates range.