Stephanie Denise Christensen, MD practices board-certified family medicine in Carlsbad at Kaiser Permanente's medical offices on Avenida Encinas near Poinsettia Park. A 2022 graduate of the University of Arizona College of Medicine—Phoenix, she completed her family-medicine residency within Kaiser Permanente's Southern California program, a training pipeline that builds referral fluency with behavioral-health providers such as Coastal Therapy Group. Her early-career scope covers well-child visits, adolescent health, adult chronic-disease management, and geriatric assessments across the full family-medicine spectrum. Preventive-screening protocols coordinate with specialty clinics addressing hormonal and reproductive health, including Herway Health + Hormones in the Carlsbad corridor. Clinical capabilities include pediatric developmental-milestone screening, adult metabolic-panel interpretation, and chronic-condition registries tracking HbA1c and lipid benchmarks under HEDIS quality metrics.