Board-certified psychiatrist Charles A. Adams, MD, in Encinitas's New Encinitas district graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in 1973 and completed residency training in psychiatry at UCSD Medical Center. His practice on North El Camino Real provides psychiatric evaluation, psychotropic medication management, and psychotherapy for mood disorders, anxiety, and attention deficit conditions, within the same integrative healthcare corridor as Young Medicine. American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certification confirms specialization in adult psychiatric diagnosis and pharmacological treatment planning. The practice accepts Medicare and maintains referral coordination with Gemini Primary Care for patients requiring concurrent medical and psychiatric medication management along the El Camino Real corridor. Complex cases involve multi-class psychopharmacological regimens addressing treatment-resistant depression, comorbid personality disorders, and neuroleptic-sensitive psychotic presentations requiring serum-level monitoring.