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Po Chen, OMD, LAc is the co-founder of Integrative Medical Center’s division of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He provides a wide range of services to patients at the Irvine, California, office.

Dr. Chen received his medical training in both Western and Eastern medicine in China, specializing in rehabilitation medicine. Dr. Chen has been practicing and teaching acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Chinese healing exercises for more than thirty years.

He also co-founded the first Qi-Gong Healing Center in the United States in 1985. Dr. Chen’s primary focus is promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine and healing exercise to the community.

With an emphasis on individualized treatment plans and looking at health from a holistic perspective, Dr. Chen takes the time to get to know each patient’s unique health concerns.

By creating custom, personalized protocols, he helps people understand their bodies, heal from chronic disease, and become more active in maintaining their health. He is also known to provides the most effective acupuncture treatment for various pain disorders, anxiety, and insomnia.

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.

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.

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.