North County Dermatology Center in Encinitas is led by Margaret Hobson Dupree, MD, a U.S. Navy veteran and American Board of Dermatology diplomate certified since 2002. Her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, earned with honors and the Navy Surgeon General Award, preceded dermatology residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego and service as a Naval Flight Surgeon at MCAS Miramar — a military medical pipeline that intersects with the reconstructive referral network at Verve Plastic Surgery in North County. After heading the Dermatology Division at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton and practicing with Scripps Clinic Medical Group, she founded North County Dermatology Center on El Camino Real in the New Encinitas medical corridor. The practice handles medical, surgical, and cosmetic dermatology including Mohs micrographic surgery, acne management, and injectable aesthetics across three locations in Encinitas, Oceanside, and Poway. Primary care coordination for pre-surgical clearances and chronic-condition co-management routes through family medicine partners such as United Family Medicine in the Encinitas referral network. Highest-tier procedures include dermoscopic melanoma surveillance with serial digital mole mapping and staged Mohs excision of high-risk squamous cell carcinomas on sun-exposed head and neck sites.