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. 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.
Melissa is a native of Southern California. She completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley, where she first discovered her passion for the neurosciences. She continued studying cognitive neuroscience in her graduate program at UC San Diego. After realizing a desire to become involved in direct patient care, she decided to pursue a career as a neurology PA and attended the Duke University Physician Assistant Program.
Melissa joined Link Integrated Healthcare in the Fall of 2022. In addition to her love for all things related to the brain, Melissa is passionate about patient education and ensuring that her patients leave with a better understanding of their health. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, drawing, going on national park trips, trying new restaurants (especially pizza spots), and spending time with friends and family.
Board-certified neurosurgeon Ali H. Mesiwala, MD, FAANS, takes a solution-based approach to determine anatomic and functional abnormalities and then treats them with leading-edge technologies and integrative medicine.
At his four offices in Newport Beach, Marina del Rey, and Rancho Cucamonga, California, he focuses on helping all of their patients return to their normal lives, getting back into motion as quickly as possible.
The team treats a vast array of neurological conditions. After intensive neurological exams and diagnostic testing, they recommend the best nonsurgical treatments for each person's unique health care needs. They recommend surgery when symptoms are severe or persist despite conservative care.
Patients seek Dr. Mesiwala for his expertise in brain and spine surgery, as well as peripheral nerve surgery and artificial disc replacement surgery.
He's an expert in complex brain and skull base surgeries, and he has the most experience in artificial disc replacements on the West Coast, including multi-level operations and all types of spinal decompressions.
Dr. Mesiwala is a leader in the field of minimally invasive sacroiliac (SI) joint surgery and has performed endoscopic cranial and spinal surgery since 2004. No matter where pain originates, patients get relief after he performs neuromodulation surgery.
After earning a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Mesiwala received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, San Francisco.
Then he finished his neurological surgery residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
He completed his skull base and cerebrovascular fellowships at the University of Washington, International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany, and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
As a respected researcher specializing in the development of novel technologies and minimally invasive techniques for brain and spine surgery, Dr. Mesiwala holds multiple patents for medical devices used in spinal surgery.
In addition to his private practice, Dr. Mesiwala is the faculty surgeon for various artificial disc operations and spinal fusion operations with innovative techniques. He's a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (FAANS).
“Yes, I will tell all my friends about Dr. Massey Walla they know already the way he has done my back and everything so he's good and I love Dr. Massey Walla. I love him as a person I admire him so so much. I have a lot of love for him and a lot of respect and he's the best he is awesome and I don't think they have nobody else I Dr. Massey Walla and yes I do. I really don't wanna know cause for me he is so good manners. He gets to the point if he tells you if you're gonna be OK and if it's you know, he tells you how it is he doesn't say oh maybe no no no I've never heard from From Dr. Massey Walla or Maybe or Maybe we gotta see no no no no for him I swear I never heard that from him. You know I just went yesterday Monday the 18th had the appointment for 11 and I knew I had a pinched nerve because this felt weird since he did my surgery but that's not his fault and I told my husband I think I have a pension nerve because my legs hurt a lot and no maybe you just have it in your mind no when he told me I have a pinched nerve because the other leg too on the bottom hurts sometimes I told Dr. Massey Walla just you know whatever he has to do there on both sides to relieve. There's somebody sleeping for five months in the recliner. I'm tired and keep waking up at five. I can't go back to sleep. I'm sore. I don't even feel my butt cheeks anymore. I don't feel nothing. I'm just tired, but you know why he told me what it is. I'm gonna get it done see him and that's it. You know I'll leave everything in God's hand and whenever he did my surgery, I always said please Jesus you're the doctor up there. You see everything Guy this wonderful doctors hands give them strength. Give them thinking about this part this part and he never let me down so how can I not believe in Dr. Massey Walla in God goddess awesome so that's my father everybody's father and Dr. Massey Walla if you can win a Doctor Academy award for the best Doctor I wish you would win 10 of them Cuz coming from me. I would never say nothing negative about you even if it's something went wrong I wouldn't but I love you. I respect you I admire you. You're the greatest. I love you. God bless you and may God give you all the love support for yourself your family and everybody else and your stuff. God bless you Dr. Massey Walla from Josefina Divas would love forever.”
Dr. Ali Mesiwala, MD
Neurosurgeon
4551 Glencoe Ave.
Suite 145
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
“Thank you for being always on-time for my visit and always showing empathy love and compassion. Thank you for being my favorite doctor for over 2 years. I know as patients its always about our needs, I just want to give you your flowers and tell you tha k you for all the support you provide and im glad your my favorite doctor and love the grace and love you provide as my doctor. Thank you Dr. Davies. ”
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.
“Always great to caring appointments. Just need to work on their time management, but communication is excellent! The front desk, Joy, and Michelle, the office manager, always on top of my sons refills.”
Dr. Charles Niesen, MD
Specialist
960 East Green Street
Suite L-11
Pasadena, CA 91106
“Thank you for being always on-time for my visit and always showing empathy love and compassion. Thank you for being my favorite doctor for over 2 years. I know as patients its always about our needs, I just want to give you your flowers and tell you tha k you for all the support you provide and im glad your my favorite doctor and love the grace and love you provide as my doctor. Thank you Dr. Davies. ”
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