Every margin checked, before you leave the chair.
CDMS Surgery Center is an accredited outpatient facility in Pasadena where Mohs surgeons, plastic surgeons, and pain specialists work from the same building — so a diagnosis, a repair, and a recovery plan can happen in one visit instead of three.
Specialties
Three practices, one accredited operating suite — built so the surgeon who removes a tumor and the surgeon who repairs the site can work the same afternoon.
Mohs Surgery
For skin cancers on the face, ears, scalp, and hands, our fellowship-trained Mohs surgeons remove the tumor in thin layers, reading each margin on-site before the next cut. Most patients are cleared and closed in one visit — no waiting days for pathology, no second procedure to schedule.
Learn about Mohs surgeryMohs surgery is named for Dr. Frederic Mohs, who developed the technique of mapping and checking every margin before closing. It remains the highest cure-rate treatment for most skin cancers on the face and hands, precisely because nothing is left to a follow-up scan.
Plastic Surgery
Reconstructive repair after skin cancer removal, performed by a plastic surgeon in the same building — often the same day the Mohs surgeon finishes. We also see patients for elective and cosmetic procedures.
Learn about plastic surgeryPain Management
Image-guided injections and minimally invasive procedures for chronic back, joint, and nerve pain, for patients referred by their physician or self-referred for a consultation.
Learn about pain management
Our surgical center
Built around a single visit
CDMS Surgery Center began as California Dermatology & Mohs Surgery Specialists — a Mohs practice built for patients who wanted a diagnosis and a plan on the same day. We've since added plastic surgery and pain management under the same roof, for the same reason: fewer buildings, fewer intake forms, fewer weeks spent waiting between specialists.
Every procedure is performed under local or minimal sedation in this accredited outpatient operating suite, so you recover at home the same evening rather than in a hospital bed.
About our facility- Accredited outpatient facilityLicensed for same-day surgical procedures under local anesthesia.
- Board-certified specialistsFellowship-trained in Mohs surgery, reconstructive surgery, and interventional pain care.
- On-site pathologyTissue margins are read in-house, so most Mohs cases finish in a single visit.
- Pasadena, CAServing patients across the San Gabriel Valley and greater Los Angeles.
Our physicians
Expertise across specialties
Our surgeons and pain specialists are board-certified and fellowship-trained in their respective fields, and work together from the same operating suite — so your care is coordinated between specialties, not handed off between buildings.
Meet our physicians
Visit us in Pasadena
Cotton Medical Center – North Tower50 Bellefontaine St, Suite 206
Pasadena, CA 91105