Who We Are

Standiford Helm II, M.D. is the Medical Director of Pacific Coast Pain Management Center.

Dr. Helm has been practicing interventional pain management since 1982. Dr. Helm is a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology with subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine and of the American Board of Pain Medicine. Dr. Helm is a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP), the only certifying agency which tests the ability to perform interventional pain procedures. Dr. Helm is also an examiner for FIPP.

Dr. Helm is honored to be president of the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and to be Vice President of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

Dr. Helm is the Interventional Pain Management representative on the Carrier Advisory Committee for Medicare in California.

Dr. Helm has published extensively on interventional pain management issues, has lectured internationally and taught pain management procedures.

Dr. Helm has been active in the effort, both on a State and a National basis, to ensure that patients have access to those pain procedures which have been proven effective and to medication. Dr. Helm has had the honor of working with FBI and DEA agents to assist them in discriminating between practitioners who are prescribing medications for a legitimate medical purpose and those who supplying medications used for abuse or diversion.

Dr. Helm graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and attended Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Helm did an internship in Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital and a residency in Anesthesiology at UCLA.

Hansang Noh, M.D.

Dr. Noh graduated with Honors in Biology and Psychology from Stanford University. He earned his medical degree from the University of California San Diego. He completed his residency in anesthesiology with Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. Noh completed his Pain Management fellowship at University of California Los Angeles, where he studied spinal interventions, spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal pumps, neuroradiology, addiction medicine, nerve conduction and electromyography. He has presented several topics in spinal interventions, cancer, opioid management and implantable stimulator/drug delivery devices. He is Fellowship Certified in Pain Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Stacey James, MSPA-C is a certified physician assistant. She earned her Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from Cal Poly Pomona and her Masters of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Western University of Health Sciences. She started with Pacific Coast Pain Management Center in October of 2005.

Kyle Buchanan, PT. started his career in 1964 as a High School Athletic Trainer. He received a Sports Medicine Scholarship to the University of Oklahoma where he graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts & Science and became a Certified Physical Therapist from the School of Physical Therapy.

His experiences include progressive-aggressive post operative knee, shoulder rehabilitation programs, injured workers functional restoration programs for return to work, geriatric rehabilitation programs, rehabilitation programs for the neurological impaired, aquatic-pool therapy.

He became a Certified Athletic Trainer in 1984 and provided Sports Medicine services for University of California, Irvine, semiprofessional football teams, professional tennis players, U.S. alpine ski team and the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He started with Pacific Coast Pain Management Center in February 2006.