Dr. Hattori is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. He is an anesthesiology trained pain management specialist for the San Francisco Spine Center at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and a Staff Anesthesiologist at Kaiser Permanente, Oakland.

After earning his medical degree from the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Hattori completed anesthesiology residency at University of California Irvine. He then went on to sub-specialize in pain management. Dr. Hattori completed his pain management specialty at one of the nation's top pain management fellowship at University of California San Francisco. After his fellowship, Dr. Hattori remained at University of California San Francisco as a clinical instructor, where he trained other residents and fellows in practice of pain management.

Dr. Hattori is a highly skilled pain management specialist who treats various pain symptoms including back pain, neck pain, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, cancer pain, headache, neuropathic pain, peripheral neuropathy, pelvic/abdominal pain, and others.

His approach is to employ various modalities available to pain management specialists. These include physical therapy, aquatherapy, medications, pain psychology, acupuncture, biofeedback, injections, and others.  He offers injections such as epidural steroid injections, sympathetic blocks, epidurolysis, facet injections, rhizotomy, Botox injections, neurolysis, and other injections. He also offers dorsal column stimulator and intrathecal pump for those patients who have tried more conservative pain treatments.

Lastly, Dr. Hattori works closely with other specialists at San Francisco Spine Center including neurologist, physiatrist, psychologist, and orthopedic spine surgeons to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to managing pain.