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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Outpatient Medical Detox program allows people to safely stop their use of alcohol and other substances, even fentanyl, in the comfort of their own home, with in-person office visits or with telehealth, or both. Treatment is Confidential, Comfortable and Successful- with an MD, always! This, combined with intensive counseling (IOP and PHP), leads to significant success in the treatment of addiction.
He also runs 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 precribed 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 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 earned its Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in 2016.
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.
Diablo Valley Drug and Alcohol Services is an outpatient facility, meaning patients can continue working, going to school, and participating in their day-to-day routine while receiving treatment. As a longtime physician, Dr. Smeester has seen how inpatient treatment may be unobtainable due to the disruption in patients’ lives and/or finances and are thus unable to be treated.
To avoid these disruptions and promote a healthy recovery, he and his team offer a number of helpful outpatient services and evidence-based treatments, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), group therapy (IOP and PHP), family counseling, individual counseling, detox services ( theonly certified and accredited outpatient detox center in or near the San Francisco Bay areas) and more. If hospitalized treatment is necessary or desired, Dr. Smeester’s referral can help to prioritize your admission. If hospital care is needed, he can see you in consultation at Stanford ValleyCare Hospital in Pleasanton, near the San Ramon offices.
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.
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.
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