Board-certified by the AOA in Neurology and Psychiatry and a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Dr. Francisco Pardo practices in downtown San Diego's Bankers Hill on First Avenue. His dual training in psychiatry and addiction medicine addresses substance use disorders alongside co-occurring mood and anxiety conditions, a coordinated treatment model also supported by primary care providers like Arvin B. Saluta, MD at Sharp Rees-Stealy Downtown. Dr. Pardo earned his MD from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in 1984 after completing a biophysics degree at Johns Hopkins University. He then trained in radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital through Harvard Medical School, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary background in both oncologic and psychiatric pharmacology. Patients on complex medication regimens involving buprenorphine or concurrent psychotropic and analgesic agents can coordinate fills through University Compounding Pharmacy on Fifth Avenue in Bankers Hill. Highest-complexity cases involve integrated psychopharmacological management of dual-diagnosis patients under DSM-5-TR criteria, combining opioid agonist therapy with mood-stabilizer titration protocols.