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Office
101 The City Dr S
# Pavilion
Orange, CA 92868Phone+1 714-456-7012
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
- Southern California SuperDoctors Los Angeles Magazine, 2012-2019
- Physicians of Excellence Orange County Medical Association, 2012-2019
- Resident Research Award California Orthopaedic Association, 2010
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 4 citationsImpact of Sickle Cell Anemia on Inpatient Morbidity After Spinal Fusion.Young Lu, Charles C. Lin, Alex Doermann, Nilay A. Patel, Nitin N. Bhatia
Clinical Spine Surgery. 2019-12-01 - 507 citationsAdjacent Segment Degeneration in the Lumbar SpineGary Ghiselli, Jeffrey C. Wang, Nitin N. Bhatia, Wellington K. Hsu, Edgar G. Dawson
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume. 2004-07-01 - 15 citationsTransplantation of preconditioned schwann cells in peripheral nerve grafts after contusion in the adult spinal cord. Improvement of recovery in a rat model.Alexandre Rasouli, Nitin N. Bhatia, Sourabh Suryadevara, Kim Cahill, Ranjan Gupta
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume. 2006-11-01
Journal Articles
- Orthopaedic Surgeons and Spinal Cord Injury Patients (Invited Review).Bhatia NN and Gupta G, AAOS Now
- Clinical Outcomes of Spinal Surgery in Patients Treated with Hemodialysis.Chikawa T, Sakai T, Bhatia NN, Miyagi R, Sairyo K, Goda Y, Nakamura M, Nakano S, Shimakawa T, and Minato A, J Spinal Dis Tech
- Drivers of Surgery for the Degenerative Hip, Knee, and Spine: A Systematic Review.Bederman SS, Rosen CD, Bhatia NN, Kiester PD, Gupta R, Clin Orthop Relat Res
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Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Spinal Surgery and Implants.Bhatia N, Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering 4th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices..., Irvine, CA
- Do Patients with Concurrent Lumbar Stenosis Have Impaired Results Following Cervical Laminoplasty for Spondylotic Myelopathy?Bhatia N, Geck M, Gottlieb J, Harrison R, Eismont F, Spine Across the Sea: 51-52
- Laminoplasty for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy in the Elderly North American Population: Minimum of Two Year Follow-Up.Bhatia N, Geck M, Gottlieb J, Harrison R, Eismont F, Spine Across the Sea: 52
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Lectures
- Spinal Cord Injury Complications.Grand Rounds, Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, CA
- Complications of Posterior Cervical Surgery.. Complex Cervical Surgery Symposium, Denver, CO
- Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, Back Pain, and Disc Herniations.Family Practice Review Symposium, UC Irvine-Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, CA
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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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