Internal medicine and nephrology training converge in the Allied Gardens, San Diego practice of Gene W. Yang, MD, who sees patients at Kaiser Permanente's Zion Medical Center, 4647 Zion Ave, 92120. A San Diego native, Yang graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1998, completed his internal medicine residency at USC/Los Angeles General Medical Center, and finished a nephrology fellowship at Tulane University in 2005, informing his primary-care approach to hypertension and diabetes-related kidney monitoring at the Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center campus. Yang holds active California and Louisiana medical licenses and carries NPI 1194896142, processing claims through Kaiser, Medicare, Molina, and SCAN Health Plan. His caseload includes high cholesterol management, chronic back pain, joint pain, and anemia evaluation for the adult patient population in Allied Gardens and the surrounding 92120 ZIP. The Zion Avenue campus anchors the Waring Road medical district, less than two miles from SDSU and directly accessible from the I-8 freeway at the Waring Road exit. Patients requiring joint-pain rehabilitation or sports-injury recovery beyond the scope of primary care move into the therapy program at San Diego Sports Medicine & Family Health Center on Mission Gorge Road in Grantville. Yang's personal connection to the area includes regular trail running and cycling through Mission Trails Regional Park, the 5,800-acre preserve whose main entrance sits less than four miles north of the Zion Avenue campus.