Meet the Doctors

Dr. Robert Watkins, III and IV take care of the Lakers, Rams, Clippers, and Kings. Their work is valued not only by professional athletes but also by thousands of people who fly in to see them from around the country. Dr. Watkins, IV took his time deciding to become a doctor and then more years choosing the same field of spine surgery as his father. Now at the Marina Spine Center, they’ve been operating together for 16 years, the younger... The post Dr. Robert Watkins, IV appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

Dr. Rosenberg chose podiatry because he saw it as being an “internist for the foot.” He was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but decided to learn about the West by attending the University of Arizona for his undergraduate work. He moved to San Francisco where he earned his podiatric degrees from California College of Podiatric Medicine. He thought he’d try returning to the East when he did his surgical residency at St. Mary’s Hospital in Philadelphia, but soon came... The post Dr. Steven Rosenberg, DPM appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

At the age of 20, a 4-ton hoist fell on Dr. Perry’s leg and only a motorcycle racing boot that he was wearing kept him from losing his leg. It took him four surgeries and six years to regain his ability to walk and run. During that time, he lost his appetite for medical school, where he had been headed, and instead sought out the field of rehabilitation at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (now called Southern California University... The post Dr. LeRoy Perry Jr, DC appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

Dr. Lerebours was born in New York, the son of a Haitian immigrant father who was an ophthalmologist. He attended Howard University for medical school and was part of the Nth Dimension, which encouraged female and minority students to go into orthopedics rather than the usual gynecology or internal medical. Keeping his finger on the pulse of progress in orthopedics, Dr. Lerebours now performs robotic total knee replacements, uses the direct superior approach for total hip replacements, and is doing... The post Dr. Franz Lerebours appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

Dr. Vokshoor was born in Tehran, Iran, where his father was a doctor. When he was nine, they moved to Virginia where he learned to do X-rays for his uncle, an orthopedic surgeon. Going to medical school, he inadvertently walked into the wrong operating room and saw a white glistening membrane in the very center of the brain. He was hooked. Instead of focusing on orthopedics, he became a neurosurgeon. Recently he realized he wanted to become a better integrative... The post Dr. Amir Vokshoor appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

Sports medicine chiropractor Dennis Colonello was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. His odyssey took him to some small towns north of Toronto before he married an American woman whose acting aspirations moved them to the Los Angeles area. He immediately got his chiropractic license and invented some successful health care products. His practice in Beverly Hills, named Peak Health offers two gyms: one a Pilates gym to help patients through acute phases of injury; the second to help bring... The post Dr. Dennis Colonello appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

As a young child, Andrew Bulczynski and his family fled from Poland to Austria as refugees. After many stops, they settled in Toronto, Canada. He first became a dentist, but later switched into orthopedic surgery. A runner and skier, he trained in Lake Tahoe then settled in Los Angeles. He felt DISC in Marina del Rey matched his own philosophy of treatment: minimally invasive surgical techniques, using the minimum procedure that would be effective, keeping surgery as a last resort.... The post Dr. Andrew Bulczynski appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

At age 17, Tim Davis had to choose between becoming a professional water skier or a doctor. Over the past fourteen years, he’s become a premier FDA researcher who always seems to have at least two studies going. The name of his new clinic, Source Health Care and Surgery Center, explains his concept when helping patients solve complex back pain issues: There are a finite number of variables that contribute to back pain. Start ruling out the variables until you’re... The post Dr. Tim Davis appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

As a child, Fola May accompanied her Nigerian-American father back to West Africa and saw long lines of people with no access to medical care wait patiently for days to be seen. She decided to study the status of medicine globally as well as become an internal medicine doctor and gastroenterologist who treats specific patients. Eventually she specialized in colorectal cancer and has conducted studies that show disparities between blacks and whites in this #2 cancer killer. Blacks, especially black... The post Dr. Fola May appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

David Kulber went into plastic and reconstructive surgery because it gave him a chance to create new surgeries. He has reconstructed severely deformed mounds of flesh into functioning hands on a young boy from Africa. He started using Google Glass to teach surgeons in Mozambique to do surgery, and he created a novel technique of using meniscus (“hearty fibrocartilage”) from a cadaver to use to create new joints in the wrist and the hand. His undergraduate degree from Cal Berkeley... The post Dr. David Kulber appeared first on Meet the Doctors.

Born in Scotland and educated in Illinois, Dr. Siddique decided to get an MBA at the University of Southern California before doing a fellowship in neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai. He saw medicine changing and wanted to remain an independent surgeon rather than following the trend in becoming a W-2 employee of a hospital. He and his business partner Brian Perri, D.O. created several medical groups, opened their own outpatient surgical center, bought a $24 million building near Cedars, and...

At age 12, Tom Knapp broke his elbow and was fascinated that surgeons could repair the problem he saw in the X ray. He knew then he wanted to be a doctor, and as he went through his education, settled on orthopedics. Today he is one of the top handful of arthroscopic shoulder surgeons in the L.A. area. He will tell you why goalies have the most shoulder injuries in soccer, and he’ll explain a cutting-edge new surgical technique. After... The post Dr. Tom Knapp appeared first on Meet the...

Born and raised in Hilo on the big island of Hawaii, Dr. Kim Carvalho knew by the age of six she loved animals. By age 9, she was volunteering at the local veterinarian’s office and saw her life’s path set out before her. She was educated at UC Davis and at Washington State University before moving to Southern California to do further training and becoming certified as a specialist for dogs and cats. She has created a concierge service in... The post Dr. Kim Carvalho appeared first on...

At age six, Dr. Allison’s family moved from Iran to Texas. He attended Medical School at Baylor College of Medicine and got his MBA at the same time. When he did his residency at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, he began to see his career develop – he was becoming used to handling severe trauma calmly and complex orthopedic surgeries easily. He stayed at County/USC for his fellowship, then followed his mentor to Cedars-Sinai, where he remains today. He is... The post Dr. Daniel...

A native Angeleno, Dr. Tracy Zaslow is the director of the sports concussion and sports medicine programs at Children’s Orthopedic Center. She pioneered the field of primary care pediatric sports medicine, becoming one of only two such doctors in the L.A. area when she started her career. She spearheaded an effort to educate parents and young athletes about the signs of concussion, and each year she organizes events on that topic, often including former athletes that she helped guide...

Even before medical school, Dr. Kim knew he wanted to make a difference through research – to make discoveries that create improved treatments. It seemed to him that in oncology there was a lot of room for making new discoveries with a deadly disease that could clearly make an impact on patients’ lives. He has published over 100 articles in urology and cancer and is currently accepting patients with prostate tumors into a clinical trial. He is mapping prostate tumors... The post Dr. Hyung...

Born in Taiwan and raised in Canada, Dr. Janie Grumley became a champion figure skater before beginning her training to become a surgeon. She chose breast cancer as her field of specialization and learned the advanced procedure of oncoplasty – removing a breast tumor and in the same surgery reconstructing the breast. She has helped champion intra-operative radiation therapy, in which one dose of radiation can be applied to the tumor bed and nearby tissues, sparing most healthy tissue...

Born in Los Angeles, Dr. Sanjay Khurana at first thought he might become a neurosurgeon, but quickly fell in love with the robust recoveries orthopedic spine surgeries produced. After a childhood in Saudi Arabia he attended UC Berkeley, Stanford and University of Miami for his medical training. He began his career at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, then moved back to his home in Los Angeles to join an innovative outpatient spine surgeon practice, DISC. After 17 years and 5,000... The post...

Dr. Chris Vincent was an elite 800-meter runner at UCLA before becoming a sports chiropractor. He was an Olympic team doctor many times as well as the team doctor for the World Cup Track and Field Championships. From 2002 to 2008, he served as the medical and fitness consultant to the government of Saudi Arabia. In 2010 Dr. Vincent founded Altus Health in Santa Monica where he provides a collaborative team of health care professionals to keep top actors healthy... The post Dr. Chris...

Dr. Harold Kraft spent two decades as a hospital-based anesthesiologist at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. His undergraduate degree was in BioEngineering from the University of Pennsylvania, but his mother wanted him to be a doctor, so he did that while maintaining a parallel high-tech career, starting several software companies and obtaining numerous patents. He decided to focus upon laser therapy for pain at his LaserMD Pain Relief clinics in Santa Monica and Manhattan...