Dr. Hong is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is board eliligible in Pain Management and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Hong is an Interventional Physiatrist for the San Francisco Spine Center and Sports Medicine Department at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. He earned his medical degree from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI and trained in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, CA.  He performed a fellowship in interventional spine and sports medicine, at the prestigious Hospital for Spinal Surgery in New York City.  This training focused on inter-disciplinary approaches to conditions and diseases that affect the spine and peripheral musculoskeletal system.

Dr. Hong specializes in aggressive diagnostic and non-surgical, minimally invasive conservative treatment for conditions and diseases of the spine and peripheral musculoskeletal system, including flouroscopically guided epidural steriod, facet, and radiofrequency denervation, intradiscal catherization, discography, and electrodiagnostic studies.

Dr. Hong has published papers relating to Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET) and Intradiscal Injections.  His research interests include the further study of nonsurgical, minimally invasive treatments for degenerative disc disease as well as osteoarthritis of the spine and peripheral joints.