Moving Offices. The Inevitability of Change

So after more than twenty years in Culver City, I am moving my office to West LA/Westwood on November 1.

Moving Offices

The reasons are multiple. A key one is that my lease expired and the landlord did not offer me a satisfactory offer to stay in the suite.

Anyway, as sometimes happens with unexpected news, better things happened. I connected with Jason Schiffman, M.D. the Director of the Camden Center. He runs a large, well-respected, integrative Mental Health Center. He saw the opportunity to have a mind-body Pain expert nearby. His office is at 10780 Santa Monica Boulevard, near Malcolm, just east of Westwood Boulevard. I'll be in Suite 300 in that building.

Within a few weeks we had created a sublease agreement for me to reside in some unused space in his Center and are working on some innovative Pain programs, as well. I look forward to a new beginning of sorts. Especially the opportunity to have an office within walking distance of my home! Also, the creation of a TMS intensive program, residential or purely outpatient is something that Dr. John Sarno did decades ago and that could still play a role in the care of some patients.

My phone # will be the same. Staff will be the same. I will have very nice space, but less than before, and so I'm going through all my accumulated stuff and getting rid of lots. That is always a big process, especially for pack rats!

The practice is evolving toward an out-of-network, self-pay model. I will be off Medicare 10/1; but remain a Cigna and Aetna PPO provider and a provider for a few other smaller insurance plans. The practice will naturally be getting smaller, with more focus on Chronic Pain, TMS, and more attention to Preventive Care as well. Hopefully more time per patient; fewer patients in total is the direction I am going.

Before all that is completed, I am one of the Hosts of and a Speaker at the National PPDA sponsored TMS conference in Boulder, CO, next week. Over 250 reservations and a chance to see colleagues from around the country and around the world!