Address Family Health Center 276 International Circle 3rd Floor San Jose CA 95119 Map & Directions Telephone Appointments: (408) 972-3275 Advice(days): (408) 972-3590 Advice(eves): (408) 362-4791

Department Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Closed	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	Closed
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Welcome to the Department of Mohs Micrographic Surgery at the Kaiser San Jose Medical Center. This department was begun in 1981 by Dr. Steven Swengel when he introduced the fresh tissue Mohs technique to northern California Kaiser. The department has grown from one physician performing 500 cases a year to a department of 3 full time and 1 part-time Mohs College trained physicians completing close to 2000 cases each year. Each of us is fellowship trained through the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and we all are members of the Mohs College, an important qualification you should be looking for in your treating physician. We each are supported by a dedicated medical assistant and have the luxury of superb tech support from our licensed histotechs who do all the tissue processing for us during your visit.

Our office is located on the third floor of the Family Health Center at 276 International Circle, San Jose, CA. Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 am until 7:30pm (or until all cases are completed). Most morning cases are completed by lunchtime and afternoon cases are completed by 5:30pm. Please come prepared to spend at least four hours with us as most cases will be cleared and repaired in one visit. Your visit will be coordinated by our scheduler, Debbi Hansen, who will call you at home to arrange the consultation visit. At that time we will assess the size of your skin cancer, the time we will need to complete the excision and repair and any potential need to orchestrate our Mohs excision with a more complex repair usually performed by our Head and Neck or Plastic Surgeons.

We usually recommend that most patients come for the surgery day with a designated driver. Although the surgery is done will local anesthetic only, we find that this additional support at the end of a visit comes in handy. We are more than happy to contact your driver when you are ready to be picked up if they would prefer to run off and do some errands rather than wait in the waiting room. We can reassure you that you will find this visit less intimidating than you expected and in fact, most patients are commenting on what a relaxed, informed and comforting experience they had.

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