Osteoarthritis of Foot near Palo Alto, CA

Biography: Ariel Palanca, MD, received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She finished an orthopedic surgical residency at Stanford University Medical Center and an AOTrauma Fellowship from Flinders Medical Center in Adelaide, Australia. She served as an Assistant Professor at Stanford University Medical Center in the Foot & Ankle Division, has been published in dozens of peer-reviewed publications and served in three global humanitarian aid locations. Dr. Palanca speaks English and Spanish.

Care Philosophy: I pride myself on being an approachable and caring physician who employs a conservative approach to treating patients,starting with the least invasive treatments and employing surgical management when it will clearly help my patients.

Care Philosophy: Deliver state-of-the-art treatments tailored to each patient for maximal efficacy, leveraging diverse modalities judiciously, and resorting to surgical intervention solely when warranted.