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Staff Profile

Claudio Palma, M.D.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

4/08 - Present Interventional Pain Management Physician, Spine Care Medical Group, Daly City, California

1/08 - Present Interventional Pain Management Physician, SOMA Orthopedics, San Francisco, California.

6/05 - 12/07 Interventional Pain Management Physician, St. Luke’s Orthopedic Department, San Francisco, California.

 

EDUCATION

2004 - 6/05 Pain Management Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles

2001 - 2004 Anesthesiology Residency, University of California, Los Angeles

2000 - 2001 Transitional Internship, Deaconess Medical Center, Spokane, WA

1996 – 2000 Doctor of Medicine, University of California, School of Medicine, San Diego, California

1992 - 1996 B.S. Chemistry, magna cum laude, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California

 

PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Shields, Donald C. M.D., Ph.D., Palma, Claudio M.D., Khoo, Larry T. M.D., Ferrante, F Michael M.D.: Extramedullary Intrathecal Catheter Granuloma Adherent to the Conus Medullaris Presenting as Cauda Equina Syndrome, Anesthesiology: Volume 102(5) May 2005 pp 1059-1061

1999 National Hispanic Medical Association; annual meeting in Washington, DC; topic: “LatinoHealth and the Internet”

 

LICENSURE

California Medical License: #A79161, issued March 2002

Board Certified Anesthesiologist, issued 2005

Board Certified Pain Management Specialist, issued 2005

 

LANGUAGES

Fluent in Spanish

 

SOFTWARE RELEASES

• Scriptmail X: Freeware remote scripting and control application for Mac OS X

• PregCalc X: Nagele’s rule with advance tracking options

 

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

• Fluent in C, Javascript, XHTML, PERL, Applescript, Macintosh, Win XP, BSD Unix, Linux

• Reading, programming, and hiking


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