NCCPA board-certified and a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, with three years in pain management before neurology — a specialty that overlaps it constantly, and where learning to evaluate pain seriously and distinguish its sources carefully is the whole discipline.
Credentials listed in full below, as issued by the certifying board.
Las Vegas and Henderson, each with a full diagnostic suite.
Outpatient adult neurology. No paediatric care.
AANEM-accredited electrodiagnostics at both locations.
Alissa Maree Nakamura brings a combination her patients feel immediately: rigorous training, hands-on experience in one of medicine's most demanding fields, and the unmistakable warmth of someone raised in a place where community is everything. Born and raised in Maui, Hawaii, Alissa earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from California State University, East Bay, and her master's degree in Physician Assistant Studies at Touro University Nevada in Henderson.
She is board-certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Before joining Clinical Neurology Specialists, Alissa served Southern Nevada patients for three years in pain management — a specialty that overlaps neurology constantly. Chronic pain patients live with nerve injury, radiculopathy, neuropathy and post-injury syndromes; the clinicians who care for them learn to evaluate pain seriously, distinguish its sources carefully, and treat the person rather than the complaint. Those instincts transfer directly to her neurology practice, where so many patients arrive with exactly those conditions — and with histories of being dismissed.
At Clinical Neurology Specialists, Alissa practises full time as an advanced practice provider, seeing patients for neurological evaluation and follow-up in collaboration with the practice's five board-certified neurologists. The newest member of the provider team, she represents its next chapter: trained in Nevada, certified to the national standard, and committed to the Valley.
Clinical focus: Neurological evaluation and follow-up · nerve injury and radiculopathy · neuropathy · post-injury pain syndromes
National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA).
Bachelor of Science in Biology, California State University, East Bay.
Physician Assistant Studies, Touro University Nevada, Henderson.
Three years in pain management, serving Southern Nevada patients.
These are the areas patients are most often referred to Alissa Nakamura for. Routing here is by clinical question rather than by request, so if you are not sure which fits, describe the symptom when you book and the team will advise.
Alissa’s pain-management background is most relevant to peripheral neuropathy, radiculopathy, and neuralgia and facial pain. The full condition list is on the conditions hub.
Credentials named here are issued by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine, whose accreditation programme also rates this practice's laboratories. Condition background for patients is published by NINDS.
Clinical Neurology Specialists performs no surgery and operates no imaging suite, infusion suite or interventional pain programme, and provides no paediatric, emergency or inpatient care.
Clinical Neurology Specialists · 7751 W. Flamingo Road, Suite A-100, Las Vegas, NV 89147 · 1691 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100, Henderson, NV 89012 · 702-804-1212 · Adults 18 and older.
Training, scope of practice, and how to book.
New patients and physician referrals are welcome at both the Las Vegas and Henderson offices. Adults 18 and older.