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Office
101 The City Dr S
# Pavilion
Orange, CA 92868Phone+1 714-456-7012- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Nitin Bhatia, a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon and Fellowship Trained Spinal surgeon, serves as Director of the Spine Center and Chief of the Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery service at the University of California, Irvine, and is Director of the Newport Beach based Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center.
For all of our patients, a multi-disciplinary non-surgical approach is used. This approach allows the majority of our patients to improve without surgical intervention. When surgery is necessary, Dr. Bhatia's extensive orthopedic and neurosurgery spine training in state of the art techniques help to cure his patients' problems with minimal recovery time and less discomfort than other methods.
The UC Irvine Spine Center provides care for Orange County and the surrounding communities including Irvine, Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, Laguna Nigel, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Fullerton, Westminster, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Long Beach, Anaheim, Brea, Mission Viejo, Temecula, Fallbrook, Hemet, Los Angeles, and Riverside. Patients from outside these communities are welcome at the UCI Spine Center as well. International patients are encouraged to contact us for assistance and coordination of medical care.
Education & Training
- Nicklaus Childrens HospitalFellowship, Spinal Deformity , 2004 - 2004
- University of Miami/Jackson Health SystemFellowship, Orthopaedic Surgery Of The Spine, 2003 - 2004
- UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1999 - 2003
- University of California, Los Angeles1998 - 1999
- Baylor College of MedicineClass of 1998, MD, Michael E. DeBakey Scholar Award
- Stanford UniversityBS, Biology, Honors, 1990 - 1994
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2000 - 2025
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Physicians of Excellence Orange County Medical Association, 2012-2019
- Southern California SuperDoctors Los Angeles Magazine, 2012-2019
- Resident Research Award California Orthopaedic Association, 2010
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- The Role of Perioperative Nutritional Status and Supplementation in Orthopaedic Surgery: A Review of Postoperative Outcomes.Amanda Tedesco, Abhinav K Sharma, Nischal Acharya, George Rublev, Sohaib Hashmi, Hao-Hua Wu, Yu-Po Lee, John Scolaro, Nitin Bhatia> ;JBJS Reviews. 2024 Apr 1
- 1 citationsA temporal analysis of perioperative complications following COVID-19 infection in patients undergoing lumbar spinal fusion: When is it safe to proceed?Henry Hoang, Yu-Po Lee, Nitin N Bhatia, , Chan, J., Justin P Chan, Sohaib Z Hashmi> ;North American Spine Society Journal. 2023 Dec 1
- 2 citationsOptimal Use of Advanced Practice Providers at an Academic Medical Center: A First-Year Retrospective Review.Vasco Deon Kidd, Alpesh Amin, Nitin Bhatia, Denise Healey, Courtney Fisher, Mojgan Rafiq, Mary Jo Angelica E Gallegos, Kathrina Munoz> ;Cureus. 2023 Jan 1
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Journal Articles
- Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation of Inhibin alpha-Subunit Gene Expression in Rat Sertoli Cells by 8-Bromo-3’, 5’-Cyclic-Adenosine Monophosphate.Najmabadi H, Rosenberg LA, Yuan QX, Bhatia N, Albiston AL, Burger H, Bhasin S, Molecular Endocrinology
- Congenital Syndromes Associated with Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer.Gherardini G, Bhatia N, Stal S, Clinics of Plastic Surgery
- Compartmentalized Bone Regeneration of Cranial Defects with Biodegradable Barriers: an Animal Model.Stal S, Tjelmeland K, Hicks J, Bhatia N, Eppley B, Hollier L, Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
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Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Resection of Glial Scar Following Spinal Cord Injury.Bhatia NN, Transactions of the International Meeting for Advanced Spinal Techniques (IMAST)
- Novel Transplantation of Preconditioned Schwann cells for Spinal Cord Injury with a Contusion Model.Bhatia NN, The Spine Journal 4(4S): 33S
- Results of Cervical Open-Door Laminoplasty in Patients with Tandem Cervical and Lumbar Stenosis.Bhatia NN, The Spine Journal 4(4S)
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Lectures
- Pathogenic Role of Stem Cell Factor in Infertile Men with Sertoli Cell Only Syndrome.The Endocrine Society, annual meeting
- Adjacent Segment Degeneration After Lumbar Fusion: Long Term Survivorship Analysis of 217 Patients.North American Spine Society, annual meeting
- Proximal Segment Degeneration Following Posterior Lumbosacral Fusions (L4-S1 and L5-S1).Scoliosis Research Society, annual meeting
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Press Mentions
- Spine Surgeon Leader to Know: Dr. Janet Dunlap of Orthopedics Specialists of North CountyFebruary 13th, 2016
External Links
- IrvineSpinehttp://www.irvinespine.com
- UC Irvine Orthopedic Surgeryhttp://www.uciortho.com
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