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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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