Farhad M. Limonadi, M.D. Neurosurgeon
- Director of Neurological Surgery, Eisenhower Neuroscience Institute
- President, Desert Neurosurgical Associates
- Board Certified, American Board of Neurological Surgery
- American Medical Association, California Medical Association, and California Association of Neurological Surgeons
- Active member of American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological surgeons(CNS)
Dr. Limonadi is a Board Certified Neurosurgeon specializing in brain tu-mors, minimally invasive spinal surgery, trigeminal neuralgia, facial pain, hemifacial spasm, aneurysms, deep-brain stimulation and complex spine and chronic pain syndrome. While physics and electronics were initially hobbies for Dr. Limonadi, his interests evolved into what would become a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and a position as senior associate engineer and scientist for IBM Microelectronics Division, where he developed his passion for utilizing innovative and state-of-the-art technologies in neurosurgery.
Dr. Limonadi graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, and completed his residency in Neurosurgery and fel-lowship at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Limonadi is a mem-ber of the American Medical Association, American Association of Neu-rological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, California As-sociation of Neurological Surgeons, and American Medical Association. He is also a member of the tumor, vascular and stereotactic and func-tional joint sections of the American Association of Neurological Sur-geons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
Dr. Limonadi was named among America's Top Surgeons in 2007 and received Eisenhower Medical Center's Physician of the Year Award for 2007. He is recipient of Patient's Choice Award in Neurological Surgery in 2008 from American Registry and has been recognized among Ameri-ca's Top Doctors in 2008, Top Doctors 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, and America’s Most Honored Doctors 2020.
Alfred Shen, M.D. Neurosurgeon
- Director of Neurological Surgery, Eisenhower Neuroscience Institute
- CEO, Desert Neurosurgical Associates
- Board Certified, American Board of Neurological Surgery
- American Medical Association, California Medical Association, and California Association of Neurological Surgeons
- Active member of American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological surgeons(CNS)
Dr. Shen is a Board Certified Neurosurgeon who specializes in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery, surgical treatment of brain tumors and stereotactic radiosurgery.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engi-neering from Rice University in Houston, Texas, Dr. Shen received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He completed his internship and neurosurgery residency at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. As part of his residency, he also spent a year at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Shen then completed a Spine Fellowship at the Semmes-Murphey Clinic at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, Tennessee.
Dr. Shen is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Medical Association, the California Medical Association and the Riverside County Medical Society. Dr. Shen was named among America's Top Surgeons in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and Palm Springs Life named him a Top Doctor in 2005.
Dr. Jorge L Eller, MD, FAANS
Dr. Jorge L Eller, MD, FAANS has recently joined Desert Neurosurgical Associates in Rancho Mirage as a general and endovascular neurosurgeon.
After earning his MD degree from the Federal University of Espirito Santo Biomedical Center in his native Brazil, Dr Eller completed an internship in general surgery and residency in neurological surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, graduating in 2004. After his residency, he completed a fellowship in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon, where he subsequently served as an assistant professor of neurological surgery and chief of neurosurgery at the Portland VA Medical Center. In 2010, he joined the neurosurgical faculty at Saint Louis University, where he completed a fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery followed by a fellowship in endovascular neurosurgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
After completing his fellowship training, Dr. Eller joined the faculty at Thomas Jefferson University Department of Neurosurgery, where he has served for several years as a clinical assistant professor and cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgeon at the AtlantiCare Neurosciences Institute, a member of the Jefferson Neurosciences Network. In this capacity, Dr. Eller has helped develop several neurosurgical service lines at AtlantiCare, including a Comprehensive Stroke Center, multidisciplinary neuro-oncological and skull base surgery as well as providing general neurosurgical trauma care in support of the institution’s trauma center.
Throughout his career, Dr. Eller has published and lectured on surgery for brain tumors, movement disorders, trigeminal neuralgia, skull base approaches and surgical and endovascular management of cerebrovascular diseases. His clinical interests and broad training include complementary microsurgical and endovascular management of cerebrovascular diseases such as acute ischemic strokes, intracranial aneurysms, carotid stenosis, intracranial stenosis, arteriovenous malformations and chronic subdural hematomas in addition to brain tumors, skull base tumors, meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, pituitary tumors, hemifacial spasm and trigeminal neuralgia.
Dr. Eller is board certified in neurological surgery by the American Board of Neurological Surgery since 2008 and he is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).