Annu Navani MD, ABIPP, DABRM, FAARM

Annu Navani, MD is the Founder and CEO of Comprehensive Spine and Sports Center, the leader in interventional and interdisciplinary spine and orthopedic care. She founded Comprehensive Spine and Sports Center in 2008 with the vision of bringing evidence-based, cutting-edge therapies to the community and since then has grown her office locations all over Northern California where she offers conventional and regenerative medicine therapies along with her team of interdisciplinary medical providers. 

Dr. Navani is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the Division of Pain, Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Navani completed her Anesthesiology residency from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a fellowship in Pain Medicine from the University of California, Davis. She is board-certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology and in Interventional Pain by the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians. 

She is widely published in the field of Interventional spine and Regenerative Medicine and has contributed via several peer-reviewed journal articles, visionary editorials, and book chapters. She has been instrumental in putting together the first-ever clinical practice guidelines for Regenerative Medicine and a clinical practice book on Biologics for spine and orthopedics, both slated to be released in 2019.

She sits on the board of the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery as well as serves as an Advisor for Le Reve Regenerative Wellness. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Association of Interventional Pain Physicians, The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, and The Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology.