Meet the Doctors

Dr. Robert Watkins, III and IV take care of the Lakers, Rams, Clippers, and Kings. Their work is valued not only by professional athletes but also by thousands of people who fly in to see them from around the country. Dr. Watkins, IV took his time deciding to become a doctor and then more years choosing the same field of spine surgery as his father. Now at the Marina Spine Center, they’ve been operating together for 16 years, the younger doctor specializing in computer-generated navigation and minimally-invasive surgeries of the spine. He’s so pleased that they can now place screws precisely in the correct spot for maximum results with absolute minimal opening of the body’s tissues for access. He created a Back Doctor App, which 75,000 people have downloaded to follow for relief from back pain around the world. His Back Doctor podcast lets listeners learn the basics of the spine work performed by both the Watkins doctors. This introspective interview shows a doctor of high intensity, enthusiasm, and desire to help his fellows – he wants people all over to have immediate access to the crucial information he knows with the click of a button. He wants his educated patients to ask him tough questions so they can have a true discussion.

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Dr. Rosenberg chose podiatry because he saw it as being an “internist for the foot.” He was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but decided to learn about the West by attending the University of Arizona for his undergraduate work. He moved to San Francisco where he earned his podiatric degrees from California College of Podiatric Medicine. He thought he’d try returning to the East when he did his surgical residency at St. Mary’s Hospital in Philadelphia, but soon came back to California, this time locating his practice in Santa Monica. He uses homeopathic remedies with his patients, and he created his own Instant Inserts for people who wanted a light-weight option instead of a bulky orthotic. He was a Los Angeles Marathon race doctor for 18 years.

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At the age of 20, a 4-ton hoist fell on Dr. Perry’s leg and only a motorcycle racing boot that he was wearing kept him from losing his leg. It took him four surgeries and six years to regain his ability to walk and run. During that time, he lost his appetite for medical school, where he had been headed, and instead sought out the field of rehabilitation at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (now called Southern California University of Health Sciences in Whittier, CA). A track coach of Wilt Chamberlain’s WonderWomen Track Club walked into his office one day and asked him to help the female athletes, ages 9-27. That was the beginning of his illustrious and sometimes controversial career in helping many of the world’s top athletes win Olympic medals. Decades later, most chiropractors around the world know the name of Dr. LeRoy Perry and many of them will say he’s the reason they become a chiropractor. In 2018, he was called, “The Father of Sports Chiropractic” by Dr. Peter Martin, the President of the Palmer College of Chiropractic.

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Dr. Lerebours was born in New York, the son of a Haitian immigrant father who was an ophthalmologist. He attended Howard University for medical school and was part of the Nth Dimension, which encouraged female and minority students to go into orthopedics rather than the usual gynecology or internal medical. Keeping his finger on the pulse of progress in orthopedics, Dr. Lerebours now performs robotic total knee replacements, uses the direct superior approach for total hip replacements, and is doing primary repairs of anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) rather than reconstructions. All of these are cutting-edge surgeries – he explains the benefits of each in terms of more accuracy, less pain, and faster recoveries.

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Dr. Vokshoor was born in Tehran, Iran, where his father was a doctor. When he was nine, they moved to Virginia where he learned to do X-rays for his uncle, an orthopedic surgeon. Going to medical school, he inadvertently walked into the wrong operating room and saw a white glistening membrane in the very center of the brain. He was hooked. Instead of focusing on orthopedics, he became a neurosurgeon. Recently he realized he wanted to become a better integrative doctor by helping his patients prepare for surgery and get into the recovery mindset for a quicker healing process. On the cutting edge of technology, he uses tools such as the first spinal surgery robot in L.A. county and 3D-printed titanium implants.

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Sports medicine chiropractor Dennis Colonello was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. His odyssey took him to some small towns north of Toronto before he married an American woman whose acting aspirations moved them to the Los Angeles area. He immediately got his chiropractic license and invented some successful health care products. His practice in Beverly Hills, named Peak Health offers two gyms: one a Pilates gym to help patients through acute phases of injury; the second to help bring people back to their full functional or sports status. Dr. Colonello is a team physician for the Los Angeles Clippers and has worked with other professional NBA and NFL athletes.

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As a young child, Andrew Bulczynski and his family fled from Poland to Austria as refugees. After many stops, they settled in Toronto, Canada. He first became a dentist, but later switched into orthopedic surgery. A runner and skier, he trained in Lake Tahoe then settled in Los Angeles. He felt DISC in Marina del Rey matched his own philosophy of treatment: minimally invasive surgical techniques, using the minimum procedure that would be effective, keeping surgery as a last resort. He educates his patients to be a partner in their treatments, helping to choose their own best option. He believes doing a rotator cuff surgery without doing physical therapy is asking for failure. He ended, saying, “What an amazing country this is, that a boy from a small town in Poland could end up living in Malibu.”

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At age 17, Tim Davis had to choose between becoming a professional water skier or a doctor. Over the past fourteen years, he’s become a premier FDA researcher who always seems to have at least two studies going. The name of his new clinic, Source Health Care and Surgery Center, explains his concept when helping patients solve complex back pain issues: There are a finite number of variables that contribute to back pain. Start ruling out the variables until you’re fairly certain of a source of the pain. Then treatment can start. He is changing the culture of his clinic and the care he provides by calling those he sees not patients, but rather clients. He says to keep things balanced, he and his staff keep in mind that the clients’ time is a valuable as the physician’s.

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As a child, Fola May accompanied her Nigerian-American father back to West Africa and saw long lines of people with no access to medical care wait patiently for days to be seen. She decided to study the status of medicine globally as well as become an internal medicine doctor and gastroenterologist who treats specific patients. Eventually she specialized in colorectal cancer and has conducted studies that show disparities between blacks and whites in this #2 cancer killer. Blacks, especially black men have the highest risk of dying of colon cancer – and yet it is largely preventable!! Thus Dr. May, through the research lab at UCLA that is named after her, works for colorectal cancer awareness in many ways and tries ardently to get people “past the Ick Factor.” She explains five good ways of screening for the cancer, four of which are not a colonoscopy.

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David Kulber went into plastic and reconstructive surgery because it gave him a chance to create new surgeries. He has reconstructed severely deformed mounds of flesh into functioning hands on a young boy from Africa. He started using Google Glass to teach surgeons in Mozambique to do surgery, and he created a novel technique of using meniscus (“hearty fibrocartilage”) from a cadaver to use to create new joints in the wrist and the hand. His undergraduate degree from Cal Berkeley in European and Medical History gave him an excellent background for thinking globally to solve problems. A 3-month trip to India after college developed his mind set to help those who don’t have as much as we do. His charitable foundation is OhanaOne.one

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