Board-certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2009 with a reconstructive spine fellowship from Emory University Hospital (2007) and a Johns Hopkins medical degree from 2000, Maneesh Bawa, MD operates from the Medical Arts Center at 4060 Fourth Ave, Suite 700 in Hillcrest. Dr. Bawa is an Associate of San Diego Orthopaedic Associates Medical Group, Inc., the county's longest-established orthopedic practice (founded by Dr. Frank West in 1947), and his case mix concentrates on cervical artificial disc replacement, eXtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion (XLIF), and adult spine trauma. Non-operative workups start with evidence-based spine injections, targeted physical therapy, and traction, which lets him reserve surgery for myelopathy, radiculopathy, spinal stenosis, and osteoporotic compression fractures that have failed conservative care. Post-surgical pain management for multi-level fusions is frequently coordinated with interventional pain specialists such as The Pain Center San Diego, where image-guided injection protocols continue rehabilitation outside the operating room. His most technically demanding cases are multi-level complex reconstructive thoracolumbar fusions with percutaneous pedicle screw instrumentation in trauma patients, a technique he has published on in the Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques.