----------------------------------------------------------- New Message on Pituitary Chat
----------------------------------------------------------- From: Diana62 Message 4 in Discussion Hi Beth, If you mean Dr. Daniel Kelly in Santa Monica, I am a patient of his. IMO he is excellent! I had a macroadenoma that was removed in June 07 during his last week at UCLA. We have Kaiser as our HMO and consulted with one of their neurosurgeons and found out that he did only one pituitary surgery a month on average, that's 12-15 a year. We then consulted with Dr. Kelly after going to the pituitary support group at UCLA and concluded that he was VERY experienced doing approx. 150 surgeries a year, well over a 1000 by now. I saw an endo at Kaiser, have had all my MRI's and most of my lab tests done there also, Dr. Kelly accepted those results and still does. There were only a very few lab tests that UCLA required to be done there. All of my follow up endo appts. and labs are done with the Kaiser endo and both she along with my GP Dr. have been very cooperative in sending results to Dr. Kelly. Same with the followup MRI's. We live in San Diego, which is much closer to LA than you but I had no problem with being out of town for surgery, but I didn't fly or have a long drive (only 2.5hrs). I had only one "in person" follow up 2 weeks later and the rest have been consults by phone. I had very good results from my surgery and IMO he is excellent and also a NICE person! Their staff is very informative, helpful and friendly. I do attend the support group meetings every 2 months and they are very informative along with meeting other pit patients. Sharmyn McGraw is a very good contact www.hormones411.com . If you haven't seen her website before, she has videos of Dr. Kelly and Dr Cohan (top endo) speaking. They are worth viewing. Feel free to email her, very friendly and she is an expert in pituitary problems. I assume that you have viewed Dr. Kelly's website. Since Kaiser is an HMO and wouldn't pay for a surgeon not associated with them, we had to pay "out of pocket". It was worth every penny!!! NO REGRETS! I do hope this helps you and that I answered some of your questions. Feel free to ask more. Diana ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings. http://groups.msn.com/PituitaryChat/_emailsettings.msnw Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services. http://groups.msn.com/_passportredir.msnw?ppmprop=help For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page. http://groups.msn.com/contact If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
