The EvergreenHealth Sport & Spine Center is adding three new providers and two new part-time locations to meet the high demand for its services, Dr. Ray Baker, medical director of the EvergreenHealth Spine and Musculoskeletal Program, announced today.
The new providers are Douglas Burns, MD, Tanya Cabrita, MD and Cory Burch, PA-C.
Burns began at EvergreenHealth on July 22 and Cabrita will join the center on Aug. 19, with Burch beginning on Aug. 5. The Sport & Spine Center’s new part-time locations are at EvergreenHealth’s Redmond and Monroe primary care centers.
“With these staff additions and new locations, the EvergreenHealth Sport & Spine Center continues to build its capability to provide patient-centered care, using the latest technology to decrease pain, improve function and meet individual needs,” said Baker.
Dr. Yung Lee and Dr. Alison Stout of the Sport & Spine Center, along with Burch, will see patients at the Redmond Primary Care Center Monday through Thursday. The clinic is located in Redmond at 8980 161st Ave. NE., Suite 410. When not at Redmond, Lee, Stout and Burch will be at the center’s main campus location at the Evergreen Plaza in Kirkland.
Burns will see sport and spine patients at the Monroe Primary Care Center on Wednesdays and Fridays. The clinic is located in Monroe at 14841 179th Ave. SE, Suite 210. When not in Monroe, Burns will see patients at the center’s main campus location. He will initially spend a half-day per week performing spinal injections with EvergreenHealth.
About the providers
Burns is a rehabilitation specialist with extensive experience in sports, spine and musculoskeletal medicine. He is also very experienced in the treatment of musculoskeletal and interventional spine procedures, and was most recently the head the Interventional Spine program at Wenatchee Valley Medical Center.
Burns’s undergraduate degree is from Occidental College and he completed his medical degree and a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at the University of Washington, before training in spine injections with Dr. Paul Dreyfuss and Baker at Washington Interventional Spine Associates. He is board certified in both physical medicine and rehabilitation and sports medicine.
Cabrita brings to EvergreenHealth a unique combination of skills, thanks to a strong foundation as a physiatrist and her training in both primary care and sports medicine. In addition to serving patients at the Evergreen Sport & Spine Center, Cabrita will see sports concussion patients at the Rehabilitation Medicine clinic in the DeYoung Pavilion.
She recently completed a fellowship in sports medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and underwent her residency in pysical medicine and rehabilitation at Emory University School of Medicine. She has also completed two years of family medicine residency at Atlanta Medical Center. Cabrita holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia and earned her medical degree from St. Christopher’s College of Medicine.
Burch, who comes to EvergreenHealth from the U.S. Healthworks Medical Group in Tukwila, has extensive experience in the evaluation and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries. As a former chiropractor and sports chiropractor, he is also very experienced in occupational medicine with a broad background in physical medicine.
In addition to Bachelor of Science and doctorate degrees in chiropractic from Western State Chiropractic College, Burch holds a Bachelor of Science degree in clinical health services and a physician assistant degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine.
