Dr. Brian Kim, MD practices family medicine in Carlsbad at Scripps Coastal Medical Center, 2176 Salk Avenue, within the Scripps Health network. A Weill Cornell Medicine graduate (2004) board certified in family practice, he provides bilingual consultations in English and Spanish and holds hospital privileges at Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, with routine vision referrals coordinated through Carlsbad Optometry. His practice scope includes HIV medicine alongside standard family-medicine services, extending primary-care access to underserved populations across North County. Preventive screenings, chronic-disease management, and immunization administration round out the clinical offering, with same-campus colleagues at One Medical Primary Care Clinic - Carlsbad expanding patient access for overflow scheduling. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis protocols follow CDC 2021 guidelines, initiating tenofovir-based regimens after baseline renal-function panels, hepatitis B surface-antigen screening, and quarterly HIV RNA viral-load monitoring.