Pain Management - Medicine Independent Medical Examiners in Florida

Tampa, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, Houston, Florida

Pain Management - Medicine, Occupational Medicine - TRIPLE board-certified in Interventional Pain and Occupational Medicine—the only physician with both—I bring unmatched expertise to IMEs, disability evaluations, impairment ratings, and causation analysis. I assess not just diagnoses but their functional, occupational, and legal impact, delivering precise, objective, and defensible opinions that restore function, reduce disability, and support return-to-work outcomes. Your Trusted IME Physician Partner--Let's Connect!

Why Legal and Insurance Partners Choose Me High-Volume, High-Reliability Experience – I evaluate 300+ new clinical patients each month, bringing extensive expertise to IMEs in workers’ compensation, personal injury, and disability cases. Multi-State Licensure – Licensed in FL, TX, NY, GA, VA, WV, and DE, enabling services across major workers’ compensation and personal injury jurisdictions. Dual Clinical & Occupational Expertise – A rare combination of interventional pain/spine medicine and occupational health training allows me to assess not only diagnosis but also causation, impairment, and return-to-work capacity. Proven Leadership – Built and directed one of the nation’s largest minimally invasive pain programs, managing thousands of complex musculoskeletal and spinal conditions at scale. Litigation-Ready Reports – IME reports are structured, transparent, and defensible—addressing diagnosis, causation, impairment, MMI, restrictions, and future medical needs in a format atto...

Tamarac, Florida

Pain Management - Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry - Interventional pain management, catastrophic injury, non-catastrophic injury, impairment, back pain, neck pain, CRPS, spinal fractures, cauda equina syndrome, failed back surgery syndrome, radiculopathy, neuropathy, plexopathy, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, radiofrequency ablation, kyphoplasty, discectomy, epidurals, joint injections, sympathetic blocks, headaches, opioids, regenerative medicine

Dr. Jesse Hatgis, D.O. is a double board certified osteopathic pain management/ physical medicine and rehabilitation physician. As an interventional pain physician, Dr. Hatgis utilizes a variety of advanced therapies including, but not limited to, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, kyphoplasty, endoscopic rhizotomy, endoscopic/microdiscectomy, tumor ablation, radiofrequency ablation, interspinous process device placement, facet joint stabilization, sacroiliac joint fusion, minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD procedure), stellate ganglion blocks, nerve blocks, joint injections, and regenerative medicine. Dr. Hatgis has authored and peer-reviewed numerous publications in various medical literature resources, specifically on sacral insufficiency and vertebral compression fractures, vertebral augmentation, original uses of Cortoss cement, Baastrup’s disease, percutaneous cervical discectomies, cauda equina syndrome, and innovative techniques for the usage ...

Boca Raton, Florida

Addictions, Pain Management - Medicine

Jacksonville, Florida

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry, Pain Management - Medicine - Personal Injury Treatment and IMEs and chart reviews Long Term Disability IMEs and chart reviews Workers Comp IMEs and chart reviews Criminal Defense IMEs and chart reviews Domestic Violence IMEs and chart reviews DUI IMEs and chart reviews Pain management pharmaceutical reviews

I am Board Certified in PMR via the American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Board Certified/Diplomate of the American Board of Pain Medicine. I have also completed the course work for my Fellowship in Anti-aging and Regenerative Medicine. I would also like to teach medical students and work with organizations helping foreign medical students and residents.

Melbourne, Florida

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry, Pain Management - Medicine - Interventional Pain Management, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Sports medicine

Wesley Chapel, Florida

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry, Pain Management - Medicine - Board Certified in PM&R, Sports Medicine, Neck & Back Pain, Head & Spinal Cord Injury, Joint Disorders, Pain Management, Orthopedic, Musculoskeletal, Occupational, and Rehabilitative condition.

* Board Certified (PM&R) * Florida Disability Evolutions * American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation * Florida Medical Association * 15+ Years IME Experience

Miami, Florida

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry, Pain Management - Medicine - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation / Pain Medicine Pain, Interventional Pain, Pain Medicine, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Catastrophic Rehabilitation, Polytrauma, Amputation, Function, Activities of Daily Living.

Sarah Michelle Pastoriza, DO, is a practicing physician who joined RED Medical Legal in 2024. Dr. Pastoriza earned her medical degree at Lake Erie College of osteopathic medicine and completed residency in MetroHealth Medical Center in 2018, serving as Chief Resident in her senior year. She also completed pain fellowship in University of Alabama in Birmingham 2019, and completed a secondary fellowship in interventional orthobiologics at the Centeno-Schultz Clinic in Broomfield, CO in 2020. She worked for University Hospitals in Cleveland, OH running the consult service at the main campus, along with doing her pain clinic. She also functioned Associate Program Director for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program. She left this position to move closer to family and now works at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, FL. In this position she works as an Interventional Pain physician, and continues to work in general inpatient rehabilitation through call responsibilities. ...

Davie, Florida

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry, Pain Management - Medicine - Specialty focus in evaluation of patients with musculoskeletal and neurological pain, along with functional pain syndromes. My practice is full-time, 100% outpatient pain management with call obligations for inpatient rehabilitation, therefore still very comfortable with general PM&R. Special skills: honest communication and timely reports.

Course completed from SEAK IME Skills Master Program

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Neurology, Pain Management - Medicine - Chronic Pain, headache, traumatic brain injury, RSD / CRPS , pain medications, neurodiagnostics, EMG, neuromuscular medicine (peripheral nerve).