Dr. Marisa Corinne Chang, MD

Dr is so rude and only cares about money. Her staff Kristina is the rudest. Steer clear of this place. They have zero skill.

Purely another rip off doctor going after a cash grab trying anything no matter what the cost is

She does not know how to treat migraine. She treated the same medication I was on for six months without any effect to different times of the day and a little bit higher dosage. I continue to suffer until six months after I saw her a neurologist put me on a real migraine medication finally reduced to some pain. Chang didn’t even inform about the noise and light sensitivity that came with my migraine. Itook me many months to figure out She was extremely snobbish and assumed you are poor even though you paid over $600 cash as she does not accept insurance. In the end, She throw the MRI order across the desk and my chest. I have never come across any doctors so violent in my entire life!

I’m a migraine sufferer that also has daily headaches. I am a truly difficult case. After years of little help from general physicians I visited Dr. Chang. In the first year she found a rescue med combo that helped. Since then Dr. Chang has offered me the newest treatments as soon as they became available. After 8 years of prevention treatments & medications, 3 years ago she finally stopped the worst of my migraines & I no longer lost days every month to pain & vomiting. Last month she reduced my daily headaches & I’m living a better life. She & her staff have always been fantastic! Now, her assistant has been going above & beyond to try & get my insurance to help cover this new medication. Dr. Chang is worth the investment!

I am committed to maintaining standards of excellence in my own area of teaching -the Humanities and I can enthusiastically recommend Dr. Chang for her dedication, expert focus on patient problems as well as their contexts. Her extensive knowledge of neurology- especially needed for my particular dental issues- has been complex and extensive. Her care ,concern and sensitivity to her patients ' emotional needs are essential components of her practice.One is in "good hands" with Dr. Marisa Chang.

I give Dr. Chang the highest possible recommendation. As a medical malpractice attorney with more than 20 years experience I refer clients, colleagues and friends to her. Her qualifications are of the highest level and she has a personal and warm bedside manner, and her office and nursing staff is amazing.

I have suffered from migraine headaches for more than ten years. I have seen various specialists -- from neurologists to ENT's to Allergists -- but my headaches contained. Finally -- luckily -- I was referred to Dr. Marisa Chang. After a careful examination and an even more careful interview, Dr Chang prescribed a medication she felt certain would bring me relief. Two days after I started taking this medication, my CONSTANT headache disappeared. Now it's two months later, and it has never returned. In addition to being the RARE doctor who doesn't keep patients waiting and who meets them personally in the waiting room, Dr. Chang gave me my life back. She is a truly fine doctor, and I recommend her unreservedly to everyone.

Dr. Chang, her assistant Kristina, and the entire office staff provided the most positive, responsive and caring medical care for my daughter that I have ever witnessed. My college-aged daughter had been hospitalized over the weekend and Dr. Chang was able to see her on the Wednesday following a Sunday night hospital discharge. She really listened to my daughter who explained her symptoms, asked relevant questions and gave her a thorough exam during the intake. She arranged to expedite a sleep study for the next night and following day (Thursday night/Friday) and the sleep lab expedited a report over the weekend. Dr. Chang saw my daughter again on Monday, diagnosed her, and prescribed medication. Kristina helped tremendously in getting a prior authorization for medication. I feel like my daughter is receiving the best possible care and has a really great chance to jump back into her life as seamlessly as possible.

i am very thankful for and I would highly recommend Dr. Chang and her associates. The staff was kind and professional. She was my last hope after being turned down by other doctors. Dr Chang listened to my story with much care, sympathy and attentiveness. My first treatment for my cervical dystonia was complete elimination of pain. Looking forward to more treatments which should improve my twisted neck and continue the pain relief. The office is a very welcoming atmosphere.

I have struggled with chronic, debilitating migraines for decades that have been unremitting and unrelenting. My suffering was palpable and I felt it would never end. Prior to seeing Dr. Marisa Chang, I had made the usual rounds of "big time" neurologists noted on many of the reviews here, to no avail. Most recently, for several years I had been a patient of the leading headache specialist at UCLA, where I would wait for months just to get an appointment, my calls and emails would go unreturned for weeks, and actual appointments would often feel unfulfilling, providing me with very few solutions or new hope for an old, frustrating problem. I felt trapped. I learned about Dr. Chang by word of mouth, and she has sincerely changed my life. I was over the moon when I called her office for the first time and learned I would be able to see Marisa for an intake within the week (so rare in Los Angeles). Working with chronic pain patients, Marisa, her staff, and her practice understand… the urgency of addressing her patient's concerns (even ones she has not yet met) in a timely manner, because when an individual is in pain, time moves like molasses. The more quickly pain is attended to, the faster the relief. Having felt previously "given up on" by other neurologists, Marisa looked at my situation as an interesting medical challenge to overcome, rather than a daunting life sentence of pain and misery for me. She has a way of reframing potentially negative life circumstances and turning them into positive ones, which I find helpful and comforting. Dr. Chang is not an impulsive physician who is looking to try quick fixes or shuffle her patients in and out of her office as if she is running a factory. She is a healer in the truest sense of the world, catering to all aspects of her patients: the physical, the emotional, the soul. When I see her and I am in the middle of a horrible migraine, she obviously addresses that immediately. But she does more than that; she listens to me, she remains present, she is bright and cheerful, she is conscientious of what is happening for me in all aspects of my life, she educates me on my condition and is constantly seeking out/offering the latest treatment(s) (while staying conservative and respectful of my wishes--there is always a thoughtfulness of keeping cost down and minimizing risk and extra medication), she stays present, she is warm and she is human. She by the far the kindest, most giving, diagnostically capable, hardest-working, ablest physician I know. When she went on a maternity leave, she was back to seeing patients in only three weeks. She is available to me by cell and email pretty much at all times (I have never in my life been given this privilege by a physician). She is generally concerned with my well-being and that of all of her patients. Her staff is friendly and capable, and I rarely wait. I consistently am given "reminder" confirmation calls two days before my appointment, which I find very helpful. Lastly, I will say that my migraines have improved remarkably since becoming Dr. Chang's patient, and I no longer believe there is no hope. We have come up with a protocol that seems to be profoundly helping me, and that in and of itself is a credible reason to continue seeing her (and to recommend her), even if she weren't all of the amazing things I have described here.