Charles De Mesa, DO, joined Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Spine Center to lead the pain management program, according to an Aug. 16 news release.
Dr. De Mesa previously worked at the University of California Davis. He will also serve as the director of the chronic pain and neuropathy program at Hoag's Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute in Newport Beach.
"The opportunity to work within both the Hoag Spine Center and the Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute will allow me to serve patients across the hospital, including patients contending with neuralgia, post-stroke shoulder pain, painful diabetic neuropathy, chronic regional pain syndrome and cancer associated pain," Dr. De Mesa said in the release.