Sergiu Grozavu, MD | Kaiser Permanente

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Child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist Sergiu Grozavu, MD holds dual board certification in San Diego's Allied Gardens, practicing through Kaiser Permanente at the Zion Medical Center campus on Zion Avenue in the 92120 ZIP. He completed his medical degree at Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Moldova in 1998, followed by master's degrees in public health and public policy from UCLA, a general psychiatry residency as chief resident at the UCLA San Fernando Valley program, and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UC San Diego, which he completed in 2014 before joining Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Grozavu's pediatric caseload covers ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, mood disorders, anxiety, and OCD-spectrum conditions, and his work with young patients overlaps with pediatric providers such as Pediatric Dentistry of San Diego in Grantville, where dental anxiety in children often co-occurs with the generalized anxiety presentations he treats. He is fluent in Romanian and Russian, expanding multilingual psychiatric access for immigrant families in San Diego's east-county communities. The Kaiser Zion campus integrates child psychiatry with pediatric primary care, developmental pediatrics, and neurology, enabling coordinated diagnostic workups for children whose behavioral presentations may have neurological, developmental, or psychiatric origins. Dr. Grozavu's UCLA public health and public policy training adds a population-health lens to his clinical work, informing his approach to social determinants of mental health in underserved pediatric populations. Emergency psychiatric presentations for children and adolescents in the Kaiser system route through Kaiser Permanente Zion's Emergency Room for crisis stabilization before transitioning to Dr. Grozavu's outpatient care. His psychopharmacological approach to pediatric ADHD follows a stepwise medication protocol beginning with stimulant trials, progressing to non-stimulant alternatives, and incorporating behavioral parent training as a parallel intervention track.