Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dr. Carri Jones is a board-certified specialist in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries and conditions of the spine, peripheral nerves, and musculoskeletal system. At Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she treats sports and occupational injuries, degenerative arthritic conditions, and complex regional pain syndromes for her Daly, City, California, patients.
Thanks to her in-depth research on, and experience with, stem cell therapies, Dr. Jones was named an Innovator in Orthobiologics & Advancing Regenerative Medicine by The Orthobiologics Institute.
After earning her medical degree in 1993 from New York Medical College, Dr. Jones was chief resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Upstate Medical University and the Institute For Human Performance in Syracuse, New York. She completed her fellowship training in stem cell regenerative medicine and orthobiologics with application in sport and spine medicine.
Dr. Jones is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, sports medicine, and pain medicine. Prior to joining Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she was a partner at Orthopedic Associates of Central New York, chief of Physical Medicine at Crouse Irving Hospital in Syracuse, team physician for Syracuse University Athletics, Syracuse Sting, and USA Golden Gloves Boxing, and consultant to the Ladies Professional Golf Association and American Hockey League.
As part of her practice, Dr. Jones embraces personalized medicine, best practices, and precision point of care for rapid, optimal recovery. She is an early adopter of transformative technologies and digital health solutions, which provide positive impacts on the quality of life for the community.
Edgar Celis, MD, is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician, and the founder of the California Pain Group, located in San Rafael and Daly City, California. Dr. Celis has extensive experience in improving patient lives by using conservative, state-of-the-art techniques to treat a wide range of joint and spine disorders.
Dr. Celis completed a surgical internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in New York City. He successfully received specializations in both pain management and anesthesiology from Harvard University Medical School, having completed his residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Before founding California Pain Group, Dr. Celis worked in private practice and with leading academic hospitals in Boston, New York City, and Miami. He has a particular interest and valuable experience in comprehensive pain management and advanced minimally invasive techniques, including ultrasound-guided nerve injections and spinal cord stimulation.
A native of Colombia, Dr. Celis speaks Spanish fluently. During his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and children, and playing soccer, hiking, and mountain biking.
Edgar Celis, MD, is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician, and the founder of the California Pain Group, located in San Rafael and Daly City, California. Dr. Celis has extensive experience in improving patient lives by using conservative, state-of-the-art techniques to treat a wide range of joint and spine disorders.
Dr. Celis completed a surgical internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in New York City. He successfully received specializations in both pain management and anesthesiology from Harvard University Medical School, having completed his residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Before founding California Pain Group, Dr. Celis worked in private practice and with leading academic hospitals in Boston, New York City, and Miami. He has a particular interest and valuable experience in comprehensive pain management and advanced minimally invasive techniques, including ultrasound-guided nerve injections and spinal cord stimulation.
A native of Colombia, Dr. Celis speaks Spanish fluently. During his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and children, and playing soccer, hiking, and mountain biking.
Certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine and the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Daniel Smeester MD is a drug and alcohol addiction treatment specialist in California’s San Francisco East Bay. His state of the art Outpatient Medical Detox program allows people to safely stop their use of alcohol and other substances, even fentanyl, in the comfort of their own home, with in-person office visits or with telehealth, or both. Treatment is Confidential, Comfortable and Successful- with an MD, always! This, combined with intensive counseling (IOP and PHP), leads to significant success in the treatment of addiction.
He also runs a practice specializing in Addiction-free Pain Management with interventional pain management services in the same office. Offered are much safer and more effective medication management options for chronic pain than the typical precribed opiates. With more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Smeester is the Clinical and Medical Director of Diablo Valley Drug and Alcohol Services in San Ramon, aka Diablo Valley Treatment Center, and Center for Pain and Rehabilitation (CPR).
Dr. Smeester graduated from Ponce School of Medicine, a U.S. medical school in beautiful Puerto Rico. He then completed an emergency medicine internship and residency at New York Medical College in New York City. Not only was Dr. Smeester Chief Resident during his final resident year, but he also earned an “Excellence in Emergency Medicine” award and plaque from Academic Emergency Medicine and the “Best Intern” award from New York Medical College.
Passionate about addiction treatment, Dr. Smeester was board certified as an addiction medicine physician in 2014. He has since dedicated his life to fighting drug and alcohol dependence and addiction, at Diablo Valley Drug and Alcohol Services, which earned its Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in 2016.
As a compassionate addiction specialist, Dr. Smeester understands that those struggling with addiction and substance abuse aren’t always treated with the dignity they deserve. That’s why he’s carefully built an environment where his patients can feel comfortable, respected, and valued.
Diablo Valley Drug and Alcohol Services is an outpatient facility, meaning patients can continue working, going to school, and participating in their day-to-day routine while receiving treatment. As a longtime physician, Dr. Smeester has seen how inpatient treatment may be unobtainable due to the disruption in patients’ lives and/or finances and are thus unable to be treated.
To avoid these disruptions and promote a healthy recovery, he and his team offer a number of helpful outpatient services and evidence-based treatments, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), group therapy (IOP and PHP), family counseling, individual counseling, detox services ( theonly certified and accredited outpatient detox center in or near the San Francisco Bay areas) and more. If hospitalized treatment is necessary or desired, Dr. Smeester’s referral can help to prioritize your admission. If hospital care is needed, he can see you in consultation at Stanford ValleyCare Hospital in Pleasanton, near the San Ramon offices.
“Always the best treatment and respect over a year with this doctor, he never changes, he is still as wonderful as the first visit. Dr. Smeester is a rare gem. Hard to find the care he provides.”
Dr. Daniel Smeester, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician
100 Park Place
Suite 120
San Ramon, CA 94583
4.95(230)
Dr. Michael Jadali, DO , RPh
Sports Medicine (Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine) Physician 38.4 mi
Michael Jadali, DO, RPh, FAAPMR, is a skilled pain management specialist at the Center for Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine in San Jose, California. Dr. Jadali has been at the forefront of minimally invasive pain management for several years.
Dr. Jadali is a doctor of osteopathic medicine and graduated from Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa. He completed his residency at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, in association with the University of Maryland Medical System, which runs an ACGME-accredited residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). He was awarded the position of chief resident.
During his residency, Dr. Jadali organized one of the largest gatherings of internationally renowned PM&R and anesthesia pain management specialists on the East Coast and received the American Pain Society’s national scholarship award three times. His additional training at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, along with his fellowship training in integrated medicine as part of the American Anti-Aging Medicine Fellowship program, has gained him a unique perspective in the art of pain management and function restoration medicine.
Prior to medical school, residency, and fellowship training, Dr. Jadali earned a degree in pharmacy. He subsequently became a registered pharmacist. Using his experience as a pharmacist, Dr. Jadali has an additional edge to manage his patients’ medications more effectively and with less systemic side effects.
Because of his extensive experience in pharmacology, several of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies have chosen Dr. Jadali to be their science liaison to educate other physicians on the proper use of pain medications.
Currently, Dr. Jadali is an occasional investigator in post-marketing studies of certain new pain medications and is a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Jadali has also been recognized as one of the Bay Area’s Top Doctors for three consecutive years.
Above all his aforementioned unique qualifications, what truly sets him apart, is his compassion for his patients. Dr. Jadali is fluent in French and Farsi (Persian) to serve them better.
Moshe is an Ivy League-trained doctor who is board-certified in physical medicine and rehab. He is also an experienced medical expert witness and independent medical evaluations professional with extensive medical case file review experience. He is a former VP of Operations at NASA and a former Director at Kaiser Permanente. Currently he is the Chief of PM&R at California Pacific Medical Center.
Dr. Carri Jones is a board-certified specialist in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries and conditions of the spine, peripheral nerves, and musculoskeletal system. At Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she treats sports and occupational injuries, degenerative arthritic conditions, and complex regional pain syndromes for her Daly, City, California, patients.
Thanks to her in-depth research on, and experience with, stem cell therapies, Dr. Jones was named an Innovator in Orthobiologics & Advancing Regenerative Medicine by The Orthobiologics Institute.
After earning her medical degree in 1993 from New York Medical College, Dr. Jones was chief resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Upstate Medical University and the Institute For Human Performance in Syracuse, New York. She completed her fellowship training in stem cell regenerative medicine and orthobiologics with application in sport and spine medicine.
Dr. Jones is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, sports medicine, and pain medicine. Prior to joining Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she was a partner at Orthopedic Associates of Central New York, chief of Physical Medicine at Crouse Irving Hospital in Syracuse, team physician for Syracuse University Athletics, Syracuse Sting, and USA Golden Gloves Boxing, and consultant to the Ladies Professional Golf Association and American Hockey League.
As part of her practice, Dr. Jones embraces personalized medicine, best practices, and precision point of care for rapid, optimal recovery. She is an early adopter of transformative technologies and digital health solutions, which provide positive impacts on the quality of life for the community.
Dr. Carri Jones is a board-certified specialist in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries and conditions of the spine, peripheral nerves, and musculoskeletal system. At Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she treats sports and occupational injuries, degenerative arthritic conditions, and complex regional pain syndromes for her Daly, City, California, patients.
Thanks to her in-depth research on, and experience with, stem cell therapies, Dr. Jones was named an Innovator in Orthobiologics & Advancing Regenerative Medicine by The Orthobiologics Institute.
After earning her medical degree in 1993 from New York Medical College, Dr. Jones was chief resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Upstate Medical University and the Institute For Human Performance in Syracuse, New York. She completed her fellowship training in stem cell regenerative medicine and orthobiologics with application in sport and spine medicine.
Dr. Jones is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, sports medicine, and pain medicine. Prior to joining Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she was a partner at Orthopedic Associates of Central New York, chief of Physical Medicine at Crouse Irving Hospital in Syracuse, team physician for Syracuse University Athletics, Syracuse Sting, and USA Golden Gloves Boxing, and consultant to the Ladies Professional Golf Association and American Hockey League.
As part of her practice, Dr. Jones embraces personalized medicine, best practices, and precision point of care for rapid, optimal recovery. She is an early adopter of transformative technologies and digital health solutions, which provide positive impacts on the quality of life for the community.
Ravi Panjabi, MD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician at Advanced Pain Management, providing high-quality integrative pain management to teens and adults in Castro Valley, California, and throughout Alameda County.
Dr. Panjabi was born and raised in India and studied at Grant Medical College in Mumbai, earning his orthopedic surgery degree.
In 1989, Dr. Panjabi moved to the United States to complete his equivalency exams. He then finished an internal medicine internship at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, an anesthesiology residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, and a pain management fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Before moving to California, Dr. Panjabi served at a large pain management and anesthesiology group in Tampa, Florida.
At Advanced Pain Management, Dr. Panjabi specializes in diagnosing and treating various musculoskeletal conditions. People from all over the Bay Area visit him for relief from arthritis, sports injuries, and neck, arm, and leg pain.
Dr. Panjabi provides minimally invasive treatments whenever possible, like epidural injections and regenerative medicine procedures, but he also performs orthopedic surgery when necessary. His knowledge of advanced techniques allows him to complete procedures with smaller incisions, speeding up the post surgery recovery process.
Dr. Panjabi is very active in community activities outside of work. He regularly volunteers with the Sindhi Community of Northern California (SCNC), an organization that celebrates Sindhi cultural events and charity causes. This group lets Dr. Panjabi honor his roots and spend more time with his wife, Seema Punjabi, who serves as the SCNC president.
In his free time, Dr. Panjabi enjoys mentoring up-and-coming pre-med students. He loves seeing young people achieve their dreams and often writes letters of recommendation for them.
Dr. Panjabi welcomes anyone needing compassionate treatment of musculoskeletal pain to Advanced Pain Management today.
Moshe is an Ivy League-trained doctor who is board-certified in physical medicine and rehab. He is also an experienced medical expert witness and independent medical evaluations professional with extensive medical case file review experience. He is a former VP of Operations at NASA and a former Director at Kaiser Permanente. Currently he is the Chief of PM&R at California Pacific Medical Center.
Ravi Panjabi, MD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician at Advanced Pain Management, providing high-quality integrative pain management to teens and adults in Castro Valley, California, and throughout Alameda County.
Dr. Panjabi was born and raised in India and studied at Grant Medical College in Mumbai, earning his orthopedic surgery degree.
In 1989, Dr. Panjabi moved to the United States to complete his equivalency exams. He then finished an internal medicine internship at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, an anesthesiology residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, and a pain management fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Before moving to California, Dr. Panjabi served at a large pain management and anesthesiology group in Tampa, Florida.
At Advanced Pain Management, Dr. Panjabi specializes in diagnosing and treating various musculoskeletal conditions. People from all over the Bay Area visit him for relief from arthritis, sports injuries, and neck, arm, and leg pain.
Dr. Panjabi provides minimally invasive treatments whenever possible, like epidural injections and regenerative medicine procedures, but he also performs orthopedic surgery when necessary. His knowledge of advanced techniques allows him to complete procedures with smaller incisions, speeding up the post surgery recovery process.
Dr. Panjabi is very active in community activities outside of work. He regularly volunteers with the Sindhi Community of Northern California (SCNC), an organization that celebrates Sindhi cultural events and charity causes. This group lets Dr. Panjabi honor his roots and spend more time with his wife, Seema Punjabi, who serves as the SCNC president.
In his free time, Dr. Panjabi enjoys mentoring up-and-coming pre-med students. He loves seeing young people achieve their dreams and often writes letters of recommendation for them.
Dr. Panjabi welcomes anyone needing compassionate treatment of musculoskeletal pain to Advanced Pain Management today.
Moshe is an Ivy League-trained doctor who is board-certified in physical medicine and rehab. He is also an experienced medical expert witness and independent medical evaluations professional with extensive medical case file review experience. He is a former VP of Operations at NASA and a former Director at Kaiser Permanente. Currently he is the Chief of PM&R at California Pacific Medical Center.
Dr. Patrick Polsunas took a nontraditional path to his career in medicine. Looking to ease aches and pains accumulated over years of participating in a variety of adventure sports, he discovered the practice of yoga, and became a yoga teacher. He was privileged to watch people work through a variety of musculoskeletal and psychosocial ailments. He wished to be more fully able to help people achieve their goals and a better quality of life as a physician. While attending medical school, Dr. Polsunas worked to deepen his understanding of the musculoskeletal system, receiving an NIH T35 grant to study complementary and alternative medicine. Authoring a publication on sacroiliac joint studying range of motion in the cervical spine during yoga postures using positional sensors. He prioritizes an evidence-based approach to care, recognizing that the most effective way to help patients with their pain is often multifaceted. Dr. Polsunas enjoys traveling, bicycling, hiking and foods.
Moshe is an Ivy League-trained doctor who is board-certified in physical medicine and rehab. He is also an experienced medical expert witness and independent medical evaluations professional with extensive medical case file review experience. He is a former VP of Operations at NASA and a former Director at Kaiser Permanente. Currently he is the Chief of PM&R at California Pacific Medical Center.
Moshe is an Ivy League-trained doctor who is board-certified in physical medicine and rehab. He is also an experienced medical expert witness and independent medical evaluations professional with extensive medical case file review experience. He is a former VP of Operations at NASA and a former Director at Kaiser Permanente. Currently he is the Chief of PM&R at California Pacific Medical Center.
Joel S. Saal, MD, is a board-certified physiatrist at SOAR Spine and Orthopedics in Santa Clara and Redwood City, California.
Dr. Saal received his Bachelor of Science with honors from the University of New York at Buffalo in 1975. Before attending Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, he pursued his graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City. Here, he graduated with his doctorate in medicine in 1980.
Dr. Saal completed his training in Internal Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center of San Francisco, a UCSF affiliate, for his internship and residency programs. He continued to Stanford University to complete his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency. Dr. Saal is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation. He is certified by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and joined the SOAR Spine and Orthopedics group in 1986.
With a passion for athletics, Dr. Saal has served as a Team Physician for both Men’s and Women’s Athletics at Santa Clara University and previously served as a consultant and team physician for the San Francisco 49ers Football Team. He has also served as a team physician for Stanford University athletics and was their Associate Clinical Professor for the Department of Functional Restoration.
Dr. Saal has participated in and led clinical research and publications in the foundational work of the nonoperative treatment of painful spinal disorders. He has been a principal author in numerous original research publications regarding the role of inflammation and pain in lumbar disc disease and the nonsurgical treatment of painful spine disorders. His work has changed the approach to treating and understanding painful lumbar spine disorders nationally and internationally.
Dr. Joel Saal, along with his brother Dr. Jeffrey A. Saal, co-developed the IDET technology and procedure for treating painful degenerative discs. They were cofounders of Oratec, a medical device company. Their original research has been presented at spine conferences all over the world.
Dr. Saal is a member of the North American Spine Society and has served as a member of their Board of Directors. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Saal was one of the founders of the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports, and Occupational Rehabilitation (PASSOR), and is a cofounder of Laurimed LLC. Laurimed LLC is a medical research and development company whose mission is to improve interventional, surgical, and nonsurgical treatment methods across medical disciplines and specialties.
“I was referred to SOARSpine as I was seeking alternatives to back surgery. I have had excellent results from the Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy Dr. Saal recommended. It has restored me to pain free movement. ”
Dr. Joel Saal, MD
Physiatrist
400 Seaport Court
Suite 201
Redwood City, CA 94063
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