Can anyone recommend a Los Angeles MS specialist?

[beingmindful]

I am interested in finding an LA neurologist. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

[KoKo]

Hello beingmindful

While you're waiting for responses, thought you might like to check out the NMSS in your area. They may have some recommendations regarding MS Specialists.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/cha...are/index.aspx

Take care,
KoKo

[Redwings]

The MS clinics at UCLA and USC are both very good.

[sprinkles]

Hi, not sure if you are using the term LA as most of us do or if you want actual LA.

I saw the head neurologist Dr. Barbara Geisser at UCLA two weeks ago and she was awesome. She does not follow patients, but will recommend one to you. I can't say that I was thrilled with the helpfullness of the staff there if you call (you have to have a referral sent there before they will even talk to you). But I can say that sitting in the waiting room, it did not seem that most people were sitting there very long before being seen.

I have also heard good things about USC.

Personally, I finally found a neurologist that I LOVE - Dr. Robert Freundlich in Encino. He is not a MS specialist so to speak, but after just going through a really BAD experience with a so called "specialist" in Thousand Oaks, I'm excstatic to find him (my GP referred me to him that he was really smart and caring).

I have "tumefactive MS" (somewhat rare form of it - I actually had a stoopid brain biobsy last November). While waiting to get into UCLA, I went to see Dr. Freundlich.

I just saw him for a follow-up after he got the recommendations from UCLA. In the meantime he had taken the time to do his own research on tumefactive MS (something the so-called specialist in Thousand Oaks didn't bother to do or my first two neuro's before him).

I just really like his whole approach. He treats me with respect and like a total human being. Even though UCLA recomended full MRI scans again (and I've had a TON of them since last November). He basically said there was no need right now - his philosophy is to "treat the patient - not the scans".

Good Luck,
Tammy