Our Doctor

Dr. Straga graduated with honors from Kent State University obtaining a B.A. dual major in Biology and Pre-Med with a Psychology Minor. She Mastered in Biomedical Science from Barry University in Miami, FL and obtained her Doctorate at Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine in Miami, FL. She completed her Rotating Internal Medicine Internship at Pinellas Community Hospital in Tampa, FL and completed another MD Internal Medicine Internship at the University of Southern Alabama in Mobile, AL before completing her MD Residency in Neurology at the University of Texas in Galveston, TX.

Dr. Jeanette M Straga is the medical director of Coastal Neurological Consultants.  Her professional interests include women’s health issues, headaches and preventative health care.  She places strong emphasis on achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle to prevent disease and believes that both the patient and the doctor work together toward these goals.  Dr. Straga is a physician who listens, explains, and works with her patients.

 

Born and raised in Akron, Ohio, Dr. Straga speaks English and German, with a little Spanish.

 

She is happy to finally call Southern California home.

 

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:

 

American Academy of Neurology,    1997-Present

American Osteopathic Association, 1990-Present

 

PUBLISHED AND RESEARCH:

 

Corneal Endothelial Changes in Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia.  Residents Research Day-Poster, 1996, Cleveland Clinic

 

A Decent Thing to do for the Chiasm, Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, Vol. 17 #1, 1997

 

Why Fat Heads Just Don’t See, Journal of Ophth, 1997 June; (17):124-6

 

Transcranial Doppler for Detection of Embolic Disease in Non-Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy, Am Journal of Ophth 1998 Aug; 126(2):288-90

 

Superior Temporal Field Defects in Acute Optic Neuritis, Am Journal of Ophth 2001 also presented at ARVO 2001