Breda Velasquez, MD, practices child and adolescent psychiatry through Kaiser Permanente in Allied Gardens, San Diego, at 4647 Zion Avenue in the 92120 ZIP. Velasquez earned her medical degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 1989, completed a psychiatry residency at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System from 1995 to 1998, and finished a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from 1998 to 2000. That training path — Belgrade, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai — spans international and domestic institutions. She holds board certification in adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry and serves as Chief of Psychiatry at Southern California Permanente Medical Group. The medication management and metabolic monitoring that Velasquez's prescribing protocols require align with the compounding and specialized formulation capacity at PROVISION PHARMACY in Allied Gardens. Velasquez has practiced for more than 36 years and brings a diagnostic lens shaped by her training across European and American psychiatric traditions. She treats children 17 and younger, with clinical volume concentrated in autism, schizophrenia, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and speech and language disorders. Her diagnostic process begins with a case manager intake covering behavioral, educational, emotional, and developmental dimensions before a psychiatrist referral is made for medication or diagnostic clarification. The Allied Gardens campus on Zion Avenue serves families along Waring Road, the I-8 corridor, and the residential neighborhoods of Grantville and Del Cerro. Hormonal and reproductive factors in adolescent psychiatric presentations intersect with the gynecological expertise at Parvin Mani, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. in Allied Gardens, where adolescent patients sometimes require concurrent evaluation. Velasquez speaks English and brings cross-cultural clinical training from her Serbian medical education to San Diego's diverse patient population.