Sinno Bassam MD in Encinitas is a board-certified psychiatrist who graduated from the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine in 1975 and completed residency training at both the University of Tennessee and the University of Southern California. With over four decades of clinical experience and medical staff affiliation at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, the practice provides psychiatric evaluation and pharmacological management for schizophreniform disorders, major depressive disorder, PTSD, ADHD, and substance-use conditions — a diagnostic scope that coordinates with the integrative medical model at Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine. The Encinitas Boulevard office holds California medical license C37831 and accepts Medicare alongside commercial insurance plans for both in-person and telehealth psychiatric appointments. Clinical work emphasizes psychopharmacological management including psychotropic medication selection, dosage optimization, and ongoing monitoring for patients with complex or treatment-resistant psychiatric presentations. That medication-management focus intersects with the lab-driven diagnostic approach at Functional Medicine Specialists, where metabolic and nutritional testing informs psychiatric treatment coordination. Most complex presentations involve multi-medication regimens for co-occurring psychotic and mood disorders requiring regular metabolic panel surveillance, drug-interaction analysis, and coordination with inpatient psychiatric teams at affiliated hospital systems.