Exciting Pituitary Center Updates

We are excited to share some updates from our Pituitary Disorders Center at Pacific Neuroscience Institute® in Santa Monica, California.

Pituitary endocrinologist joins PNI

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Noa Tal to PNI as our new dedicated pituitary and hormonal health endocrinologist with additional expertise in thyroid and adrenal disease and a focus on wellness. Dr. Tal will also oversee our in-house endocrine testing unit at the PNI Clinic, enhancing diagnostic convenience and accuracy for both patients and providers.

World Class Endoscopic Endonasal Surgical Team

Our team of neurosurgeons and ENTs led by Drs. Daniel Kelly and Chester Griffiths, has one of the largest series world-wide of endonasal surgery for all types of pituitary and parasellar pathology including pituitary adenomas, Rathke’s cleft cysts, craniopharyngiomas, midline meningiomas and clival chordomas.

Unique features and extensive expertise

• Established in 2015 as a multidisciplinary team under one roof including endocrinology, neurosurgery, ENT and neuro-ophthalmology, as well as radiation oncology, allowing complete multispecialty evaluation in one clinic visit 
• Among the lowest complication rates and shortest hospital lengths of stay—typically 1—published worldwide
• Over 100 academic publications related to surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas, other skull base tumors and brain tumors
• High volume of out-of-region and international patients with pituitary tumors and related disorders

Your partners in care

Our team of experts consults and collaborates with physicians across the country on patients with pituitary-related disorders. We do in-person consultations at our PNI Clinic in Santa Monica or can do virtual consultations for patients who are not local.

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.

Clinic Location

2125 Arizona Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-582-7450

Our pituitary specialists

Daniel F. Kelly, MD

Neurosurgery PNI Director & Founder

Garni Barkhoudarian, MD

Neurosurgery

Walavan Sivakumar, MD

Neurosurgery

Chester F. Griffiths, MD

ENT Surgery PNI Founder

Abbas A. Anwar, MD

ENT Surgery

Michael Yong, MD, MPH, MBA

ENT Surgery Neurorhinology

Noa Tal, MD

Endocrinology

Howard R. Krauss, MD

Eye Neuro-ophthalmology PNI Founder

Alexander M. Solomon, MD

Eye Neuro-ophthalmology

Robert Wollman, MD

Radiation Oncology

April Vassantachart, MD

Radiation Oncology

Amy Eisenberg, MSN, ARNP, CNRN

Neurosurgery

Natasha Cueto, MSN, APN, AGACNP-BC

Neurosurgery

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