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Dr. Amir Rafizad is a skilled, compassionate pain management specialist offering state-of-the-art care for the relief of acute and chronic pain in patients throughout the Irvine and Fountain Valley, CA regions. At Pain Care Providers, Dr. Rafizad offers individualized care for neck pain, back and spine pain, herniated discs, spinal stenosis, sciatica, and neuropathy, including noninvasive pain management solutions to address underlying causes of pain.

Dr. Rafizad completed his internship and residency at John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County followed by a fellowship in pain management at UCLA Medical Center. As a pain management specialist, Dr. Rafizad is board certified in both pain medicine and anesthesiology. In addition to caring for patients at Pain Care Providers, he also treats patients at the West Los Angeles Veterans Medical Center where he serves as attending staff physician for pain management and anesthesiology.

Dr. Rafizad is committed to providing patients with individualized care based on each patient’s unique needs for long-term, meaningful relief of pain. He welcomes the opportunity to care for new patients, and the practice accepts most major medical insurance plans.

Dr. Reza Mahrou is a top-rated pain management doctor providing advanced care for patients in and around Irvine and Fountain Valley, CA. At Pain Care Providers, Dr. Mahrou offers cutting-edge care for back pain, neck pain, sciatica, spinal stenosis, herniated discs and neuropathy (nerve pain), including noninvasive pain management solutions to relieve pain and improve overall quality of life. In addition to caring for patients at Pain Care Providers, Dr. Mahrou is an assistant clinical professor at UCLA Health Services and serves as a part-time faculty at the VA Health Care System in West Los Angeles.

Board-certified in both anesthesiology and pain management, Dr. Mahrou completed his surgical training and residency in anesthesiology and perioperative care at UCLA Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in pain management at UCLA in conjunction with the UCLA Spine Center. He is an active member of state and national associations dedicated to interventional pain management and regional anesthesiology.

Dr. Mahrou is dedicated to providing optimized pain management solutions based on each patient’s unique medical needs for long-term relief of symptoms, improved function and a better quality of living. He welcomes the opportunity to care for new patients, and the practice accepts most major medical insurance plans.

Hadi Estakhri, MD — or Dr. E as his patients know him — is a double board-certified, Harvard-trained psychiatrist practicing at Allied Psychiatry and Mental Health in Newport Beach, California.

With more than two decades of professional experience, Dr. E has vast proficiency in the mental health field. At Allied Psychiatry in Newport Beach, California, his expertise is in treating a wide range of psychiatric and addictive disorders in both adult and adolescents.

Dr. E completed his medical education at the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and his first residency in psychiatry at Tehran Institute of Psychiatry. He was an attending psychiatrist in Iran for several years before relocating to the United States for his Post-Doc fellowship at Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering. During his fellowship, he studied the role of genetic and environmental factors in mood disorders, schizophrenia, and addiction.

Dr. E then completed his second psychiatry residency at Harvard Medical School/Boston VA Healthcare system followed by his Addiction Psychiatry subspecialty training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. During his residency, he was trained at several well-regarded institutions including Mclean Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he received specialized education in psychopharmacology for depression, ADHD, and bipolar disorder, as well as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for treatment-resistant depression. With his extensive experience at VA Boston hospitals, he became an expert in treating PTSD. Furthermore, he received numerous academic awards throughout his residency training.

Dr. E holds a holistic view of human health and emphasizes collaboration with a patient's treatment team, including their therapist, primary care physician, and other involved specialists. He believes this is paramount to optimizing the quality of healthcare and, in turn, a better treatment outcome. 

Dr. E is one of only a few psychiatrists practicing in Orange County and Los Angele area, CA who is double board-certified in both General Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. 

Advance Comprehensive Pain Care is a specialist pain management practice with offices in Moreno Valley, Riverside, and Rancho Cucamonga, California. Led by double board-certified pain management expert Munish Loomba, MD, the practice offers outstanding and compassionate care to patients living with musculoskeletal conditions and chronic pain.

Dr. Loomba and his colleagues provide the latest treatments for conditions ranging from migraines and bursitis to complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and fibromyalgia. They help patients with challenging forms of neck and back pain, including herniated discs, spinal stenosis, and facet joint syndrome. Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. also specializes in treating neuropathic (nerve dysfunction) conditions like peripheral neuropathy and postherpetic neuralgia.

The treatments offered at Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. typically begin with highly effective conservative options such as physical therapy and medication. Patients also benefit from advanced interventions like medical Botox® injections, PRP (platelet-rich plasma) therapy, bursa injections, radiofrequency ablation, epidural injections, and spinal cord stimulator implantation.

In addition, Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. uses state-of-the-art diagnostics to discover the source of pain, including imaging technologies and procedures like medial branch block injections.

To find out how you can benefit from Dr. Loomba’s expertise, call the nearest Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. office or book an appointment online today.

Advance Comprehensive Pain Care is a specialist pain management practice with offices in Moreno Valley, Riverside, and Rancho Cucamonga, California. Led by double board-certified pain management expert Munish Loomba, MD, the practice offers outstanding and compassionate care to patients living with musculoskeletal conditions and chronic pain.

Dr. Loomba and his colleagues provide the latest treatments for conditions ranging from migraines and bursitis to complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and fibromyalgia. They help patients with challenging forms of neck and back pain, including herniated discs, spinal stenosis, and facet joint syndrome. Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. also specializes in treating neuropathic (nerve dysfunction) conditions like peripheral neuropathy and postherpetic neuralgia.

The treatments offered at Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. typically begin with highly effective conservative options such as physical therapy and medication. Patients also benefit from advanced interventions like medical Botox® injections, PRP (platelet-rich plasma) therapy, bursa injections, radiofrequency ablation, epidural injections, and spinal cord stimulator implantation.

In addition, Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. uses state-of-the-art diagnostics to discover the source of pain, including imaging technologies and procedures like medial branch block injections.

To find out how you can benefit from Dr. Loomba’s expertise, call the nearest Advance Comprehensive Pain Care, Inc. office or book an appointment online today.

Dr. Dillard is board certified in four medical specialties including Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pain Medicine (through the American Board of PM&R), Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. 

He received his bachelors degree in Anthropology from U.C.L.A.  He holds a D.O. degree from the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, CA. where he graduated with honors and received the Jacqueline Parris Award for Academic Excellence upon graduation.

He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston, MA, where he was Chief Resident.  He completed part time post-residency training in Electrodiagnostic Medicine at the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center Department of Neurology under Joe Jabre, MD. 

He was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA for 16 years.  He was also a Member, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA from 1994 to 1996.

Dr. Dillard’s focus is on improving a patient's function which entails reducing pain to minimal to resolved levels, and then strengthening and retraining the muscles, tendons, and ligaments to optimize function.  He uses multiple treatment approaches, “Training in physical medicine and rehabilitation has taught me to look at injury and pain through a functional lens.  I enjoy using all the tools at my disposal-ultrasound and electromyogram for proper diagnosis, injections (including regenerative medicine techniques such as platelet rich plasma injections and prolotherapy injections for joints, ligaments, and tendons), nerve blocks, osteopathic manipulation, proper nutrition for healing, physical therapy, exercise, proper flexibility, they all play an important role for achieving maximum health, strength, flexibility, that is conducive for a happy, enjoyable and productive life.  It is also important to have a compassionate understanding of how loss of function and pain affects an individual’s daily life, and to have an understanding of the emotional aspect of pain.”

Dr. Dillard enjoys surfing (or anything to do with the ocean), motorcycling, and traveling, but mostly he enjoys his family and the people he loves in his life.

A southern Californian native, Dr. Lai completed his medical training at Tufts University where he subsequently served as a clinical instructor. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He also holds board certifications in Pain Medicine and Independent Medical Examiners. 

Dr. Lai’s primary goal is to achieve maximal restoration of physical, psychological, social and vocational function through comprehensive rehabilitation. Dr. Lai’s professional interests include interventional pain management, neuromusculoskeletal disorders, electrodiagnostics, industrial and occupational rehabilitation. His approach to caring is based on improvement in quality of life through improvement in function.

Dr. Lai understands that physicians today must have superb clinical expertise, plus an understanding of business advocacy systems to help patients access the insurance, medical care, and the support required when facing an injury in order to help people improve their quality of life.

Dr. Shinto Koshy completed his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency training at the State University of New York Downstate and is board certified. He completed his Interventional Spine Fellowship at Centers for Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine.

Dr. Koshy is an active member with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Association of Academic Physiatrists, American College of Healthcare Executives, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. His philosophy of care is a comprehensive approach while focusing on prevention, educating patients about their pain, and giving patients the opportunity to make the right choices with their healthcare.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Chronic musculoskeletal pain
Nerve conduction study and electromyelography

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Diplomate, American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2010 - Now
Board Certification in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialty, 2010 – Now

PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE

Medical Licensure in California, 10/22/2008 - Now

MEDICAL TRAINING

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency
8/2003 – 10/2007
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

MEDICAL AND POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION

Doctor of Medicine Degree and Master of Business Administration Degree
1997 – 2003
Combined Program with Tufts University School of Medicine, Brandeis University, and Northeastern University.
Boston, Massachusetts

English
Chinese – Mandarin and Taiwanese

Leia Rispoli, MD, is an experienced interventional pain medicine physician who offers exceptional pain management and physiatry services to patients in and around Marina Del Rey and Newport Beach, California. 

Double board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Management, Dr. Rispoli has a profound empathy for patients suffering severe or prolonged pain. She uses innovative, non-surgical interventions alongside evidence-based treatments to restore function and reduce or eliminate her patients’ pain. Her typical patient population includes patients with chronic or acute pain of the low back, neck, peripheral joints, pelvic region, and patients with headaches, but she is highly capable of treating pain of any sort. 

Dr. Rispoli studied for her undergraduate degree at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was co-captain for the Division-1 women’s soccer team and, for four consecutive years, was a National Athletic Honor Society member. Dr. Rispoli earned her medical degree at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey, and completed her Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Columbia University and Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.

Dr. Rispoli’s interest in the treatment of pain led her to complete an interventional pain medicine fellowship under the Weill Cornell Tri-Institute Pain Fellowship program in New York City, doing rotations at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Rispoli specializes in advanced neuromodulation (spinal cord stimulation) techniques, pelvic pain (both male and female), ultrasound-guided interventional procedures, and regenerative medicine techniques such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or stem cell therapy.

At her private practice, Dr. Rispoli offers comprehensive, compassionate care that aims to enhance and optimize her patients’ quality of life.