Board-certified Mohs surgeon Dr. Fred F. Shahan, MD in Encinitas holds dual doctoral credentials — a Doctor of Medicine from UC San Diego and a Doctor of Pharmacy from USC. His combined pharmaceutical and surgical background shapes a skin cancer excision practice that works alongside reconstructive specialists such as Dermacare Encinitas at Schoemann Plastic Surgery for complex post-excision closures. He completed his dermatology residency as chief resident at Northwestern University in 1997 and joined the medical staff at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, maintaining privileges on the Santa Fe Drive campus near Encinitas Community Park. His caseload at the Scripps Clinic Encinitas location centers on basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma detection in North County's high-UV coastal population. Highest-complexity procedures include Mohs micrographic surgery with intraoperative frozen-section margin control and same-day local flap or full-thickness graft reconstruction.