Bruce Michael Frankel, MD

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Dr. Nagpal received his Medical Degree from New York Medical College in 2008 and subsequently completed his Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation residency at the Baylor College of Medicine/U.T. Health Houston PM&R Alliance Program. He then completed a fellowship in Pain Medicine at U.T. Health San Antonio. He is the Division Chief of PM&R at the Medical University of South Carolina and a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics & Physical Medicine. He has a Master of Science degree in Physiology and Biophysics, a master's degree in Education in Healthcare Curriculum and Instruction, as well as an MBA. Prior to joining the faculty at MUSC, Dr. Nagpal served as the Division Chief of Pain Medicine at U.T. Health San Antonio for many years. He is actively involved in clinical research. He has been offering clinical care for patients with chronic pain since 2013, and his primary clinical focus is currently musculoskeletal pain. However, he evaluates and treats patients with all types of pain complaints.

M. Lance Tavana, M.D. is a board-certified plastic surgeon with additional board certification in hand surgery. Originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, Dr. Tavana attended college at Stanford University in California, where he earned a BS in biology in 2000. Medical school brought him back east to Philadelphia, where he obtained his medical degree at Temple University in 2004. Residency sent him south to the University of South Florida, where after completing his internship in general surgery, he continued his plastic surgery residency at USF, graduating in 2011. Further fellowship training in the specialty of hand and upper extremity surgery continued in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, through the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Since 2012, Dr. Tavana has served as full-time faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina as an associate professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is currently the program director for the MUSC integrated plastic surgery residency and is active academically, having authored several book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles as well as presenting on a local and national level. He previously served as the president of the South Carolina Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr. Tavana also serves at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, taking care of our nation's veterans. Dr. Tavana specializes in hand and upper extremity surgery. He treats all conditions of the upper extremity from the elbow to fingertip, including but not limited to: carpal tunnel syndrome (treating with endoscopic carpal tunnel release); cubital tunnel syndrome; hand/wrist/elbow pain; rheumatoid arthritis; osteoarthritis; fractures; amputations; lacerations: tendon and nerve injuries; congenital conditions; Dupuytren's disease; tennis elbow; and, sports injuries. Dr. Tavana also performs reconstructive surgery for traumatic injuries, cancer reconstruction, and chronic wounds. Dr. Tavana currently sees patients in Mount Pleasant, West Ashley, and North Charleston.