UC San Diego Family Medicine residency Core Faculty member Julia McPherson, MD, completed her medical degree at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2018 and finished family medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in 2021. The clinical panel operates out of the UCSD Hillcrest-4th & Lewis Medical Offices at 330 Lewis St, where the family medicine group shares a building with urgent care, lab draw stations, and UCSD subspecialty overflow from McGrath Outpatient Pavilion at UC San Diego Health. Teaching responsibilities include supervising UCSD family medicine residents during continuity clinic, outpatient procedure blocks, and inpatient ward rotations at Hillcrest Medical Center. Core panel scope covers women's health including Pap screening, contraception counseling, and early pregnancy workups, plus behavioral health integration for depression and anxiety alongside routine hypertension and diabetes management for adults. Orthopedic complaints that progress past first-line management, such as persistent knee effusions, rotator cuff tears, and labral pathology, refer to adult reconstruction surgeons including Robert S. Meyer, MD. The most complex outpatient work handled on this panel is integrating behavioral health management with chronic opioid tapering and medication-assisted treatment for patients carrying concurrent depression, chronic pain, and substance use histories.