Born in Scotland and educated in Illinois, Dr. Siddique decided to get an MBA at the University of Southern California before doing a fellowship in neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai. He saw medicine changing and wanted to remain an independent surgeon rather than following the trend in becoming a W-2 employee of a hospital. He and his business partner Brian Perri, D.O. created several medical groups, opened their own outpatient surgical center, bought a $24 million building near Cedars, and recently bought...

At age 12, Tom Knapp broke his elbow and was fascinated that surgeons could repair the problem he saw in the X ray. He knew then he wanted to be a doctor, and as he went through his education, settled on orthopedics. Today he is one of the top handful of arthroscopic shoulder surgeons in the L.A. area. He will tell you why goalies have the most shoulder injuries in soccer, and he’ll explain a cutting-edge new surgical technique. After...

Born and raised in Hilo on the big island of Hawaii, Dr. Kim Carvalho knew by the age of six she loved animals. By age 9, she was volunteering at the local veterinarian’s office and saw her life’s path set out before her. She was educated at UC Davis and at Washington State University before moving to Southern California to do further training and becoming certified as a specialist for dogs and cats. She has created a concierge service in...

At age six, Dr. Allison’s family moved from Iran to Texas. He attended Medical School at Baylor College of Medicine and got his MBA at the same time. When he did his residency at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, he began to see his career develop – he was becoming used to handling severe trauma calmly and complex orthopedic surgeries easily. He stayed at County/USC for his fellowship, then followed his mentor to Cedars-Sinai, where he remains today. He is...

A native Angeleno, Dr. Tracy Zaslow is the director of the sports concussion and sports medicine programs at Children’s Orthopedic Center. She pioneered the field of primary care pediatric sports medicine, becoming one of only two such doctors in the L.A. area when she started her career. She spearheaded an effort to educate parents and young athletes about the signs of concussion, and each year she organizes events on that topic, often including former athletes that she helped guide through...

Even before medical school, Dr. Kim knew he wanted to make a difference through research – to make discoveries that create improved treatments. It seemed to him that in oncology there was a lot of room for making new discoveries with a deadly disease that could clearly make an impact on patients’ lives. He has published over 100 articles in urology and cancer and is currently accepting patients with prostate tumors into a clinical trial. He is mapping prostate tumors...

Born in Taiwan and raised in Canada, Dr. Janie Grumley became a champion figure skater before beginning her training to become a surgeon. She chose breast cancer as her field of specialization and learned the advanced procedure of oncoplasty – removing a breast tumor and in the same surgery reconstructing the breast. She has helped champion intra-operative radiation therapy, in which one dose of radiation can be applied to the tumor bed and nearby tissues, sparing most healthy tissue and...

Born in Los Angeles, Dr. Sanjay Khurana at first thought he might become a neurosurgeon, but quickly fell in love with the robust recoveries orthopedic spine surgeries produced. After a childhood in Saudi Arabia he attended UC Berkeley, Stanford and University of Miami for his medical training. He began his career at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, then moved back to his home in Los Angeles to join an innovative outpatient spine surgeon practice, DISC.  After 17 years and 5,000...

Dr. Chris Vincent was an elite 800-meter runner at UCLA before becoming a sports chiropractor. He was an Olympic team doctor many times as well as the team doctor for the World Cup Track and Field Championships. From 2002 to 2008, he served as the medical and fitness consultant to the government of Saudi Arabia. In 2010 Dr. Vincent founded Altus Health in Santa Monica where he provides a collaborative team of health care professionals to keep top actors healthy...

Dr. Harold Kraft spent two decades as a hospital-based anesthesiologist at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.  His undergraduate degree was in BioEngineering from the University of Pennsylvania, but his mother wanted him to be a doctor, so he did that while maintaining a parallel high-tech career, starting several software companies and obtaining numerous patents. He decided to focus upon laser therapy for pain at his LaserMD Pain Relief clinics in Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach, where he’s been having...