Victoria L. Danhakl, MD

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Get to know Dr. Victoria L. Danhakl, MD, an anesthesiologist serving Santa Monica, California. 

Dr. Danhakl is an anesthesiologist serving Santa Monica and the surrounding communities at Bayside Anesthesia Medical Group. 

Bayside Anesthesia Medical Group provides the highest quality anesthetic care to thousands of patients at St. John’s Health Center and several outpatient centers in Santa Monica. They have over forty board-certified anesthesiologists, many with sub-specialty training and fellowships. BAMG anesthesiologists have been trained at some of the most prestigious universities and have published numerous peer-reviewed articles. 

Dr. Danhakl received her Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Texas-San Antonio. She went on to complete a residency and fellowship at Columbia University. Her fellowship was in obstetric anesthesia. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Danhakl specializes in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. 

Dr. Danhakl is board certified in anesthesiology. 

She has been practicing with Bayside Anesthesia Medical Group since 2019. 

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