Julianna Pesce, MD | Westside Head & Neck

Dr. Julianna Pesce grew up in Carmel, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley as an Alumni Scholar, where she majored in Ethnic Studies and completed her premedical basic science training. Upon graduating, with honors, she worked as a blood transfusion technician at UC San Francisco before applying to medical school.

Dr. Pesce received her Medical Degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. While in medical school she became involved in research studying the socioeconomic determinants of health, and completed a clinical research fellowship in the Bioethics Department at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Pesce continued her residency training at UCLA , completed an internship in General Surgery and residency in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Following residency, she was awarded and completed a fellowship in Advanced Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Dr. Pesce treats all general adult and pediatric ENT problems with a special focus on head and neck cancer as well as thyroid and parathyroid disease. She currently resides in West Los Angeles with her husband.

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*As of October 1st 2023, Dr. Shapiro will be an out of network provider. Dr. Shapiro’s services will be fee-for-service and are not contracted with any insurance company. Payments are to be paid in full at the time of each visit or prior to the date of surgery. The fee schedule is available upon request. As a courtesy to our patients and to maximize your reimbursement, the office will provide you with a claim form to be submitted to your insurance. For out of network care we do not verify insurance coverage and assume the insurance information you provide is accurate. Reimbursements will come directly to you from your insurance carrier based on your plan's out of network coverage and deductible. We do not bill secondary policies. Please note that all other fees (facility and anesthesia fees for surgery, and tests such as labs or x-rays) will still go through your insurance as per regular insurance in-network contract.

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