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Moshe is an Ivy League-trained doctor who is board-certified in physical medicine and rehab. He is also an experienced medical expert witness and independent medical evaluations professional with extensive medical case file review experience. He is a former VP of Operations at NASA and a former Director at Kaiser Permanente. Currently he is the Chief of PM&R at California Pacific Medical Center.

Edgar Celis, MD, is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician, and the founder of the California Pain Group, located in San Rafael and Daly City, California. Dr. Celis has extensive experience in improving patient lives by using conservative, state-of-the-art techniques to treat a wide range of joint and spine disorders.

Dr. Celis completed a surgical internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in New York City. He successfully received specializations in both pain management and anesthesiology from Harvard University Medical School, having completed his residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Before founding California Pain Group, Dr. Celis worked in private practice and with leading academic hospitals in Boston, New York City, and Miami. He has a particular interest and valuable experience in comprehensive pain management and advanced minimally invasive techniques, including ultrasound-guided nerve injections and spinal cord stimulation.

A native of Colombia, Dr. Celis speaks Spanish fluently. During his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and children, and playing soccer, hiking, and mountain biking.

Dr. Carri Jones is a board-certified specialist in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries and conditions of the spine, peripheral nerves, and musculoskeletal system. At Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she treats sports and occupational injuries, degenerative arthritic conditions, and complex regional pain syndromes for her Daly, City, California, patients.

Thanks to her in-depth research on, and experience with, stem cell therapies, Dr. Jones was named an Innovator in Orthobiologics & Advancing Regenerative Medicine by The Orthobiologics Institute.

After earning her medical degree in 1993 from New York Medical College, Dr. Jones was chief resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Upstate Medical University and the Institute For Human Performance in Syracuse, New York. She completed her fellowship training in stem cell regenerative medicine and orthobiologics with application in sport and spine medicine.

Dr. Jones is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, sports medicine, and pain medicine. Prior to joining Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, she was a partner at Orthopedic Associates of Central New York, chief of Physical Medicine at Crouse Irving Hospital in Syracuse, team physician for Syracuse University Athletics, Syracuse Sting, and USA Golden Gloves Boxing, and consultant to the Ladies Professional Golf Association and American Hockey League.

As part of her practice, Dr. Jones embraces personalized medicine, best practices, and precision point of care for rapid, optimal recovery. She is an early adopter of transformative technologies and digital health solutions, which provide positive impacts on the quality of life for the community.

Michael Jadali, DO, RPh, FAAPMR, is a skilled pain management specialist at the Center for Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine in San Jose, California. Dr. Jadali has been at the forefront of minimally invasive pain management for several years.

Dr. Jadali is a doctor of osteopathic medicine and graduated from Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa. He completed his residency at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, in association with the University of Maryland Medical System, which runs an ACGME-accredited residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). He was awarded the position of chief resident.

During his residency, Dr. Jadali organized one of the largest gatherings of internationally renowned PM&R and anesthesia pain management specialists on the East Coast and received the American Pain Society’s national scholarship award three times. His additional training at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, along with his fellowship training in integrated medicine as part of the American Anti-Aging Medicine Fellowship program, has gained him a unique perspective in the art of pain management and function restoration medicine.

Prior to medical school, residency, and fellowship training, Dr. Jadali earned a degree in pharmacy. He subsequently became a registered pharmacist. Using his experience as a pharmacist, Dr. Jadali has an additional edge to manage his patients’ medications more effectively and with less systemic side effects. 

Because of his extensive experience in pharmacology, several of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies have chosen Dr. Jadali to be their science liaison to educate other physicians on the proper use of pain medications. 

Currently, Dr. Jadali is an occasional investigator in post-marketing studies of certain new pain medications and is a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Jadali has also been recognized as one of the Bay Area’s Top Doctors for three consecutive years. 

Above all his aforementioned unique qualifications, what truly sets him apart, is his compassion for his patients. Dr. Jadali is fluent in French and Farsi (Persian) to serve them better. 

Certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine and the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Daniel Smeester, MD, is a drug and alcohol addiction treatment specialist in California’s San Francisco East Bay. His state-of-the-art Inpatient Medical Detox program allows people to safely stop their use of alcohol and other substances, even fentanyl, in the comfort of our luxury inpatient program. We still have our complete outpatient program. All treatment is confidential, comfortable, and successful with an MD always! This, combined with our residential program lasting as long as 30 days, followed by intensive counseling (IOP and PHP), leads to significant success in the treatment of addiction.

He helps run a practice specializing in Addiction-free Pain Management with interventional pain management services in the same office. Offered are much safer and more effective medication management options for chronic pain than the typical prescribed opiates. With more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Smeester is the Clinical and Medical Director of Diablo Valley Drug and Alcohol Services in San Ramon, aka Diablo Valley Treatment Center, and the Center for Pain and Rehabilitation (CPR).

Dr. Smeester graduated from Ponce School of Medicine, a U.S. medical school in beautiful Puerto Rico. He then completed an emergency medicine internship and residency at New York Medical College in New York City. Not only was Dr. Smeester Chief Resident during his final resident year, but he also earned an “Excellence in Emergency Medicine” award and plaque from Academic Emergency Medicine and the “Best Intern” award from New York Medical College.

Passionate about addiction treatment, Dr. Smeester was board-certified as an addiction medicine physician in 2014. He has since dedicated his life to fighting drug and alcohol dependence and addiction at Diablo Valley Drug and Alcohol Services, which has earned its Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) accreditation since 2016.

Dr. Smeester has seen how inpatient treatment may be unobtainable due to disruptions. Thus, we developed a treatment program in a luxurious setting, so the investment of time and finances will be well worth it.

As a compassionate addiction specialist, Dr. Smeester understands that those struggling with addiction and substance abuse aren’t always treated with the dignity they deserve. That’s why he’s carefully built an environment where his patients can feel comfortable, respected, and valued. Magnolia Recovery is an inpatient facility in a luxury setting specializing in medical detox and residential care.

Promoting health and recovery, he and his team offer a number of outpatient services and evidence-based treatments, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), group therapy (IOP and PHP), family counseling, individual counseling, detox services ( the only certified and accredited outpatient detox center in or near the San Francisco Bay area), and more. If you believe hospitalized treatment is necessary or desired, please look at Dr. Smeester‘s inpatient detox program in Walnut Creek.

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Jeffrey A. Saal, MD, is board-certified physiatrist at SOAR Spine and Orthopedics in Redwood City, California. 

Dr. Saal completed his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1971, where, just recently, he was inducted into their sports hall of fame. After graduation, he went to the Tulane University School of Medicine, where he received his medical degree in 1975. 

Dr. Saal completed two residency programs, one in Internal Medicine at Boston University and a second residency program in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford. He currently holds board certifications in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Internal Medicine, and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He, along with Michael Dillingham, MD, founded Sports, Orthopedic, and Rehabilitation Medicine Associates (SOAR), the medical group responsible for treating the San Francisco 49ers, Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and many other Bay Area teams. Dr. Saal is also a former Associate Clinical Professor at Stanford University, and the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Saal is a founding member and past president of the North American Spine Society (NASS), and is one of few select members of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS). Additionally, Dr. Saal founded the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports, and Occupational Rehabilitation (PASSOR). This association emphasizes nonsurgical and minimally invasive approaches to the practice of musculoskeletal medicine. 

Dr. Saal is widely held to be the father of interventional physiatry. He and his brother have taught thousands of physicians worldwide in interventional procedures. Dr. Saal, along with his brother Joel co-developed the IDET technology and procedure for treating degenerative painful discs. He and his brother hold many patents on medical devices. They recently developed a new catheter-based injection system for treating spinal disorders.

Dr. Saal has lectured internationally and published books, book chapters, and original research in spine care, disc disorders, and sports medicine. He is a member of the editorial boards for many journals, including SPINE. Dr. Saal has served as a visiting professor at several medical schools throughout the country.

Dr. Saal’s research and publications have revolutionized the care of painful spinal disorders. With his brother, Joel Saal, MD, their research in biochemical mediators of pain and nonsurgical therapy have been at the forefront of spinal medicine. 

Dr. Saal has presented his research studies at international conferences worldwide. Along with his brother, the team was the first to describe and scientifically publish their exercise program of specific stabilization exercises to treat painful spinal disorders. Their exercise program has led to the popular growth of “core” training that is used in gyms worldwide. 

Joel S. Saal, MD, is a board-certified physiatrist at SOAR Spine and Orthopedics in Santa Clara and Redwood City, California. 

Dr. Saal received his Bachelor of Science with honors from the University of New York at Buffalo in 1975. Before attending Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, he pursued his graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City. Here, he graduated with his doctorate in medicine in 1980. 

Dr. Saal completed his training in Internal Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center of San Francisco, a UCSF affiliate, for his internship and residency programs. He continued to Stanford University to complete his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency. Dr. Saal is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation. He is certified by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and joined the SOAR Spine and Orthopedics group in 1986.

With a passion for athletics, Dr. Saal has served as a Team Physician for both Men’s and Women’s Athletics at Santa Clara University and previously served as a consultant and team physician for the San Francisco 49ers Football Team. He has also served as a team physician for Stanford University athletics and was their Associate Clinical Professor for the Department of Functional Restoration.

Dr. Saal has participated in and led clinical research and publications in the foundational work of the nonoperative treatment of painful spinal disorders. He has been a principal author in numerous original research publications regarding the role of inflammation and pain in lumbar disc disease and the nonsurgical treatment of painful spine disorders. His work has changed the approach to treating and understanding painful lumbar spine disorders nationally and internationally.  

Dr. Joel Saal, along with his brother Dr. Jeffrey A. Saal, co-developed the IDET technology and procedure for treating painful degenerative discs. They were cofounders of Oratec, a medical device company. Their original research has been presented at spine conferences all over the world. 

Dr. Saal is a member of the North American Spine Society and has served as a member of their Board of Directors. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Saal was one of the founders of the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports, and Occupational Rehabilitation (PASSOR), and is a cofounder of Laurimed LLC. Laurimed LLC is a medical research and development company whose mission is to improve interventional, surgical, and nonsurgical treatment methods across medical disciplines and specialties. 

Christopher Bonzon, MD, is a board-certified physiatrist at SOAR Spine and Orthopedics in Santa Clara and Redwood City, California. 

Dr. Bonzon received his undergraduate degree and master’s from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. For his medical degree, Dr. Bonzon relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana to study at the Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed his physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He then completed postgraduate fellowship training in both interventional sports and spine medicine and diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound before completing an additional fellowship training in spine and sports musculoskeletal medicine at SOAR. He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Dr. Bonzon currently serves as a sports and spine physician for Santa Clara University athletics and is a former physician for Carolina Performing Arts.

He has presented nationally and locally regarding diagnostic and treatment strategies for neuro-musculoskeletal dysfunction. Dr. Bonzon has co-authored and performed research for published book chapters on interventional ultrasound techniques for musculoskeletal injuries and disorders. He has studied the return of amputees to physically demanding jobs and continues his research alongside caring for his patients at SOAR Spine and Orthopedics.  

Rudolf "Rudy" Buntic, MD, is a skilled plastic, hand, and microsurgeon at SOAR Spine and Orthopedics in Redwood City, California. His clinical interests include reconstructive microsurgery, focusing on the reconstruction of traumatic injuries and defects caused by cancer. 

A native of Canada, Dr. Buntic completed his post-graduate residency in general and plastic surgery at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He also completed a fellowship in hand and microsurgery at Davies Medical Center in San Francisco with esteemed doctors Harry and Gregory Buncke. 

Dr. Buntic is board-certified in Plastic Surgery and hand surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is an Associate Professor in Plastic Surgery at Stanford University Medical School and a member of the University of California, San Francisco's Clinical Faculty. He is a member of several societies, including the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. Dr. Buntic has presented and published several scientific articles and book chapters related to various plastic, hand, and microsurgery topics. 

Gerald P. Keane, MD, is a board-certified physiatrist at SOAR Spine and Orthopedics in Redwood City, California. 

Dr. Keane graduated from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston and received his medical education from Brown University Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island. He later completed his residency at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. 

Dr. Keane serves as a team physician for Stanford University Athletics and previously served as a consultant team physician for the San Francisco 49ers. Dr. Keane is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Functional Restoration at Stanford University School of Medicine. He concentrates his care on spine-related disorders.

Since 1992, Dr. Keane has served as a team physician and now clinical physician and consultant at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously he has acted as a team physician for the US Figure Skating Association.

Dr. Keane has lectured nationally and published extensively on physical medicine and rehabilitation. 

Ravi Panjabi, MD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician at Advanced Pain Management, providing high-quality integrative pain management to teens and adults in Castro Valley, California, and throughout Alameda County. 

Dr. Panjabi was born and raised in India and studied at Grant Medical College in Mumbai, earning his orthopedic surgery degree. 

In 1989, Dr. Panjabi moved to the United States to complete his equivalency exams. He then finished an internal medicine internship at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, an anesthesiology residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, and a pain management fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago. 

Before moving to California, Dr. Panjabi served at a large pain management and anesthesiology group in Tampa, Florida. 

At Advanced Pain Management, Dr. Panjabi specializes in diagnosing and treating various musculoskeletal conditions. People from all over the Bay Area visit him for relief from arthritis, sports injuries, and neck, arm, and leg pain. 

Dr. Panjabi provides minimally invasive treatments whenever possible, like epidural injections and regenerative medicine procedures, but he also performs orthopedic surgery when necessary. His knowledge of advanced techniques allows him to complete procedures with smaller incisions, speeding up the post surgery recovery process. 

Dr. Panjabi is very active in community activities outside of work. He regularly volunteers with the Sindhi Community of Northern California (SCNC), an organization that celebrates Sindhi cultural events and charity causes. This group lets Dr. Panjabi honor his roots and spend more time with his wife, Seema Punjabi, who serves as the SCNC president.

In his free time, Dr. Panjabi enjoys mentoring up-and-coming pre-med students. He loves seeing young people achieve their dreams and often writes letters of recommendation for them.

Dr. Panjabi welcomes anyone needing compassionate treatment of musculoskeletal pain to Advanced Pain Management today. 

Dr. Crawford completed his medical training in Chicago, IL, where he attended the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University. He completed a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital. He then went on to complete a fellowship in Interventional Spine and Sports Medicine at OSS Health in York, PA.

He has a special interest in musculoskeletal medicine and keeping his patients out and about. He is a firm believer that movement is medicine and a key to a long healthy life. Sometimes pain can bring you down, but he strives to get his patients back out there enjoying their lives, whether through therapy, medications, or injections.

He performs a variety of injections including:

• ultrasound guided joints/tendons
• nerve blocks
• epidural steroid injections
• medial branch blocks
• radiofrequency nerve ablations
• basivertebral nerve ablations

Education and Training:

Medical School: Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University. Downers Grove, IL

Internship: Blake Medical Center. Bradenton, FL

Residency: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital. Wheaton, IL

Fellowship: Interventional Spine and Sports Medicine, OSS Health. York, PA

Certifications/Memberships:

• American Osteopathic Association
• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Association of Academic Physiatrists
• North American Spine Society
• International Pain and Spine Intervention Society
• Pacific Spine and Pain

In his leisure time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and children, cooking, skateboarding, and being outside whether that’s camping, hiking, cycling etc.

Dr. Patrick Polsunas took a nontraditional path to his career in medicine. Looking to ease aches and pains accumulated over years of participating in a variety of adventure sports, he discovered the practice of yoga, and became a yoga teacher. He was privileged to watch people work through a variety of musculoskeletal and psychosocial ailments. He wished to be more fully able to help people achieve their goals and a better quality of life as a physician. While attending medical school, Dr. Polsunas worked to deepen his understanding of the musculoskeletal system, receiving an NIH T35 grant to study complementary and alternative medicine. Authoring a publication on sacroiliac joint studying range of motion in the cervical spine during yoga postures using positional sensors. He prioritizes an evidence-based approach to care, recognizing that the most effective way to help patients with their pain is often multifaceted. Dr. Polsunas enjoys traveling, bicycling, hiking and foods.

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Leslie DeLaney, MD, is a board-certified pain management specialist at Balanced Pain Management in Walnut Creek, California. She considers it a unique honor to serve patients in the East Bay region in Northern California. 

Dr. DeLaney became interested in the field of pain management while she was still a medical student at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was during her anesthesiology rotation that she was introduced to this sub-specialty and was impressed by the doctors’ ability to perform nerve blocks to stop pain that patients, until then, had no choice but to “live with it.” Those doctors were able to relieve patients’ suffering quickly and profoundly, and they inspired her to do the same. It was at that point that she decided to do an anesthesiology residency and become a pain management specialist.

Dr. DeLaney received her training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Johns Hopkins Hospital continues to be the #1 training hospital in the world. In addition to learning in-depth pharmacology, physiology, and intraoperative anesthesiology, she learned about acute and chronic pain and worked with some of the pioneers in pain management while doing electives there.

Dr. DeLaney then chose to receive her formal pain management training in interventional pain medicine at The Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland Clinic is world-renowned and the top hospital in the country for the treatment of chronic pain. During her fellowship, Dr. DeLaney concentrated on learning how to treat patients with intractable pain using injection techniques, medication management, and integrating psychology and physical therapy into a plan that would allow people to have a better quality of life.

Dr. DeLaney took her first position as a fully trained pain management specialist at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. She achieved the rank of Assistant Professor and maintained a successful pain management practice that involved treating all types of acute and chronic pain syndromes. Dr. DeLaney was also responsible for teaching medical students, residents, and fellows about the disease of chronic pain and how to treat it successfully.

Dr. DeLaney is board certified in both chronic pain management and anesthesiology and has published multiple papers on chronic pain management. She continues to give lectures at local and national medical meetings on pain management.

She is a member of the California Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Pain Association, the American Academy of Pain Management, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain.

 

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