Specialists
Samir Sharma, MD PDF Print Email
Samir Sharma, M.D. #A72062 is a general orthopedist with an emphasis on knee, shoulder and hand surgery.  Dr. Sharma completed his medical training and Residency in Orthopedics at Wayne State University.  He also completed a sports medicine fellowship in Lake Tahoe performing over
400 operative cases.  Diplomate American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Fellow American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Fellowship trained Sports Medicine, and State of California Qualified Medical Evaluator.
 
James Petros, MD, QME PDF Print Email
James Petros, M.D. License #A90732 is dual board-certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry) and Internal Medicine.  Dr. Petros specializes in pain management.  He provides consultation and multi-faceted care to patients whose pain does not respond to conservative measures.  He performs EMGs and interventional procedures, such as epidurals.  Dr. Petros completed his B.S. in Biology at Santa Clara University, graduating magna cum laude.  He then attended Tulane Medical School, obtaining his M.D. with high honors.  Dr. Petros completed his Internal Medicine residency at CPMC/UCSF and his Physiatry residency at Stanford.  He was voted as one of America's Top Physicians by the Consumer Research Council in 2009.  Dr. Petros in fluent in Aramaic, Farsi, and French.  He is a Qualified Medical Evaluator for the State of California.
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Basil R. Besh, MD PDF Print Email
Basil R. Besh, M.D. License #A83582 is a hand surgeon, who is Board Certified in Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Besh handles our difficult hand, wrist and elbow injuries treating fractures, tendon and nerve injuries, performs microsurgery, carpal tunnel releases, and wrist arthroscopy as well as other procedures. Dr. Besh has been treating industrial injuries since 2004. Dr. Besh has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and was Valedictorian at Columbia University School of Engineering. He graduated from medical school from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed an internship in General Surgery, residency in Orthopedic Surgery, and fellowship in Hand Surgery at New York University.
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Bruno Kovacic PDF Print Email
Bruno Kovacic - BioFunction® LLC Mr. Kovacic is the founder and managing member of BioFunction® LLC, a forensic disability consulting company, which is working in cooperation with Alliance Occupational Medicine to provider work capacity examinations and functional restoration.   Bruno brings more than 25 years of progressive healthcare
& occupational medicine experience including: conducting sophisticated Evidentiary Forensic Disability Examinations for more than 400
claimants in private, public and government sectors, designing advanced intra-data validation, behavioral & discomfort factoring software used to quantify chronic pain, providing written med-legal opinions for ergonomic, personal injury and workers’ compensation claims in California, the Division of Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, the State of Hawaii’s Disability Compensation Division, and Canada’s ICBC, creating and designing a web-based medical restriction / job task matching software application to safely match limited duty employees to modified tasks in the work environment for the U.S. largest employer, and developing the industries first ergonomic risk sorting algorithm to quantify frequency, duration and severity of early symptom patterns associated with cumulative trauma / repetitive motion injuries.   Mr, Kovacic is a peer reviewed published researcher in Evidence-Based Functional Restoration. Mr. Kovacic also holds credentials as a medically trained Certified Ergonomic Compliance Director and is one of two Certified ERGOS® Trainers in the U.S.
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Janet E. Kraemer, PhD PDF Print Email
Janet E. Kraemer, PhD License #PSY14161 is a licensed Psychologist who provides consultation and treatment if needed to help injured workers expedite their recovery.  Dr. Kraemer received her BS in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Psychology at Alliant University.  She attended a post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Psychology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.  Dr. Kraemer is a member of the Santa Clara Valley Psychological Association and California Psychological Association.  With that in mind, she is part of our multidisciplinary team of providers involved with our functional restoration program for chronic pain patients to assist them with developing skills to better tolerate and manage their chronic pain flares.
 


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