About Dr. Einstein
Thomas Einstein M.D.
Director of Anesthesia
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About our Dr. Einstein:
Dr. Thomas Einstein is the director of Anesthesia at the Clavin Center. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine, Class of 1980. Following graduation from Medical School, he completed internship and residency in Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance California. After eighteen months in private practice as an Emergency Physician, Dr. Einstein returned to UCLA to complete a residency in Anesthesiology. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology
Dr Einstein then started private practice anesthesia in the Santa Monica community. He is still on staff at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center where he joined in December 1986. Initially, most of his work was hospital based, involving all types of surgery, and patients of all ages, including newborns. Currently, he is practicing obstetric anesthesia at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, and performs anesthesia for other cases at the Medical Center by patient request. Dr. Einstein has always had a strong interest in outpatient surgery, and his work has evolved to a mostly office based practice. In addition to plastic surgery, he also does anesthesia for a wide variety of outpatient surgery and office based dental and oral surgery. He has been working with the Clavin Center for over ten years.
His philosophy of practice is simple. The patient comes first! Each patient needs to be assessed individually, and their specific needs must be addressed. The goal is to do everything to make sure that the patient has the best possible experience before, during and after surgery. At the Clavin Center, this includes working closely at all times with the surgeons to keep our patients comfortable and safe. For many patients, anesthesia is a big scary unknown, and the anesthesiologist is there to develop a positive, reassuring relationship, and then use the best medical techniques to give a great anesthetic. This way, the patient can focus on a speedy comfortable recovery and enjoy the results of his or her plastic surgery.
Outside of work, Dr. Einstein is the proud father of three teenagers. He is a self described swimming fanatic, who works out every morning, even on weekends, with the local masters swimming club. Dr. Einstein was born in Switzerland, and is fluent in German, Spanish, French and English.
Professionally, he is very pleased that he was included in Woodward and White's list of best Doctors in America.
While Dr. Einstein administers most of the anesthesia at the Clavin Center, we also have several other excellent anesthesiologists on staff. They are all board certified MD physician anesthesiologists. They all have extensive hospital inpatient as well as community outpatient experience.
To contact Dr. Einstein, you may send email to einstein@jovanet.com or call him at 310-319-7291.
