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About Dr. Lan

Dr. Lan specializes in headache medicine including migraine as well as other primary and secondary headaches and facial pain disorders, Botox injections, and occipital nerve blocks and incorporates non-pharmacologic treatment options into her overall approach.

Dr. Lan earned her DO degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in Illinois in 2017. She then completed her Neurology residency at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California and received Headache Fellowship training at USC’s Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

Dr. Lan was born and raised in Southern California and is excited to practice where she can raise her young children close to family. She enjoys hiking and trying new recipes.

 

About Dr. Hiner

Dr. Hiner received his M.D. cum laude from the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1982, having completed the usual 4 years in 3 years in an accelerated scholars program. He was inducted into the medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha by his second year. He completed Neurology training at Stanford University, chosen Administrative Chief Resident by the faculty his senior year. After a year of basic neurosciences fellowship he embarked on a career in clinical medicine and research, establishing one of the largest programs for Parkinson’s disease and other Movement disorders first at the Marshfield Clinic and then at the Medical College of Wisconsin. As full professor he developed one of the largest and most active programs specializing in advanced treatments including Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), where he served as Neurologic Director. He has over 40 research publications in the field, and has participated in over 800 DBS surgeries performing intraoperative microelectrode recording (for precise targeting) and post-op DBS programming.

Dr. Hiner and his wife are proud grandparents of 4 wonderful girls, and relocated to Southern California to stay close to family. At the same time, he is excited to be in clinical practice with Link Integrated Healthcare developing a Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders program offering the most advanced care including  DBS for these conditions.

When not practicing medicine, Dr. Hiner enjoys golf and playing classical guitar.

Charles E. Niesen, MD, is a pediatric neurologist leading a team of experienced providers at AMS Neurology in Pasadena, California, and throughout the Los Angeles area. 

 

Dr. Niesen was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University in Israel. 

 

He completed his pediatric training at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He also completed his child neurology fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Niesen spent two years doing post-graduate research in neurophysiology at the University of Toronto.

 

His first faculty position was with the Children's Hospital Los Angeles. As an assistant professorship of pediatrics and neurology, he set up an NIH-sponsored electrophysiology lab to study epilepsy in the developing brain. After five years, he moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was an associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Child Neurology. 

 

Dr. Niesen is board-certified in child neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the Medical Research Council of Canada.

 

He is a specialist in childhood epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders of the brain and has published over twenty peer-reviewed articles on epilepsy and drug effects on the developing brain. 

 

Dr. Niesen is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, the Child Neurology Society, the American Academy of Neurology, and the Society for Neuroscience. He is also the co-founder of the Pasadena Neurodevelopment Group. 

 

Dr. Niesen resides in Pasadena, California, with his wife and two daughters.

Alireza Bozorgi, MD, is a board-certified neurologist and interventional pain management physician who also specializes in epilepsy and pain management. He sees patients at Minimally Invasive Medical Group, which has offices in Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, and Irvine, California. 

He received his medical degree from Tehran, Iran. He completed a neurology residency at Tehran University. He then completed another neurology residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He obtained a subspecialty in Epilepsy in Cleveland. He worked for two years at Mercy Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. Then, he completed a year of fellowship in pain management in Cleveland. Then, he moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he practiced for a year. He then moved to California and started to practice at Minimally Invasive Medical Group. 

Dr. Bozorgi has a wealth of research experience and has published extensively. He is a member of several professional associations, including the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry.

Dedicated to providing quality, compassionate patient care, Dr. Bozorgi is currently accepting new patients.

He offers medical, interventional, and invasive management of chronic pain including pain arising from spine, joints, limbs, and headache. His approach to ailments is holistic one, incorporating several frontiers of treatment.

He spends all other time not practicing medicine with his family and traveling.

Throughout his extensive career, board-certified neurologist William Shankle, MS, MD, FACP, has been regarded as a leading expert in the management and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related neurological degenerative conditions. As the founder of Shankle Clinic in Newport Beach, California, Dr. Shankle uses his extensive experience to provide exceptional care for patients from near and far. 

Dr. Shankle attended undergrad at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in biology. He continued to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he completed medical school. 

He pursued an internship in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and then completed his residency in neurology at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center. Dr. Shankle also trained as a statistician at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and completed further postgraduate studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After co-founding the Alzheimer’s Research Center at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Shankle served as Clinical Director for ten years. He also served as Director of the Memory and Cognitive Disorders Program at Hoag Neurosciences Institute.

Dr. Shankle has taken part in many research endeavors and has received numerous awards, including the Zenith Fellows Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. The New York Times has also recognized Dr. Shankle’s investigations on human brain development, reporting on his research as among the most important scientific discoveries of the 1990s.

Dr. Nita Chen is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders. Dr. Chen received her medical degree from Albany Medical College in 2017. She then completed a neurology residency at UC Irvine (2021) and a movement disorders fellowship at the University of Florida (2023). Throughout her training, she has developed a special interest in Parkinson’s Disease, Dystonia, and Deep Brain Stimulation. What she loves most about these areas is how treatment and technology meet to provide an individualized plan. Dr. Chen uses her love of art to connect science with humanism and is known to use illustrations to demonstrate concepts of disease and treatment. Outside of the role of neurologist, she enjoys gardening, making ceramics, and exploring local crafting festivities. In another life without being plagued by sea sickness, she would be a marine biologist. For now, she’ll settle for her cat (Glia) who is reportedly known to act like a shark at times, or a puffer fish.