Robert Blum, M.D.
Neurological Surgery
Offices: Oakland, Petaluma
Dr. Robert Blum received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and his MD degree in 1959 from the University of Rochester. Dr. Blum has performed more than one thousand spine and brain surgeries during his forty years as a neurosurgeon. He has been serving the workers’ Compensation community since 1991 and is well known and respected by both applicant and defense bar as well as insurance carriers. He has vast experience in understanding and applying the AMA guidelines and is a sought after lecturer regarding recent changes in compensation law, and also in anatomy and physiology of the brain.
Dr. Blum has been a concert pianist, gypsy accordionist, acclaimed photographer, television personality and star of a nationally syndicated medical comedy show (!), shipboard recreation director, European tour guide, and the physician who introduced percutaneous disc surgery to the US from Japan 30 years ago, founder of the first pain clinics in Northern California, and past chair of the department of neurology and neurosurgery of Marin General Hospital.
Attorneys who have used this Doctor:
Applicant Attorney/Firm:
Grady Wright
Defense Attorney/Firm; Insurance Company:
Keith Epstein/H&B
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Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, A.B., 1955
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Medical Doctor, 1959
Internship
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Surgery, 1959-1960
Residencies
General Surgery
Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, New York, NY, Surgery, 1960-1961
Neurosurgery
St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, NY, Neurosurgery, 1961-1962
Fellowship in Neurology
The National Hospital, Queen Square London, England
Residency in Neurosurgery
Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, Neurosurgery, 1963-1966
Military
Captain, United States Army Medical Corps, 1966-1968
Eighth Field Hospital, Nha Trang, Vietnam 1966-1967
Letterman Hospital, San Francisco, CA 1967-1968
Other Medical Appointments
Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Oakland, Hayward, Redwood City, Vallejo
Appointed Qualified Medical Evaluator
Industrial Medical Council, Division of Workers’ Compensation, 1991
Private Practice
Private Practice in Vallejo since 1971
Hospital Appointments
Sutter Solano Medical Center
Marin General Hospital
Kentfield Medical Hospital
Ross General Hospital
Novato General Hospital
Merrithew Memorial Hospital
Seton Medical Center
Professional Appointments
Chief of Neurosurgery, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Vallejo, 1968-1970, 1970-1971
Founder and Director, North Bay Pain Rehabilitation Center, Kentfield, 1973-1980
Founder and Director, Vallejo General Hospital, Pain Clinic, Vallejo, 1973-1978
Founder and Director, Kentfield Medical Hospital, Pain Clinic, Kentfield, 1976-1980
Chief of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Ross General Hospital, Ross, 1979-1984
Chief of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Marin General Hospital, Marin, 1979-1981
Professional Organizations
American Medical Association
California Association of Neurological Surgeons
California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery
California Medical Association
Solano County Medical Society
American Pain Society
San Francisco Neurological Society
Dr. Blum has performed more than one thousand surgeries.