Clinical faculty at the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry and a 2024 graduate of the UCSD General Psychiatry residency program, Dr. Katherine Kruckenberg practices out of the UCSD Health Hillcrest psychiatry suite at 350 Dickinson Street. Transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression sits at the center of her procedural caseload, a neuromodulation focus that parallels the integrative-wellness TMS work catalogued at Dr. Jon Deam- Aveo Wellness. Kruckenberg earned her MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2019 after completing the Clinical Scientist Training Program at Pitt Med, where her bench research on alcohol-associated liver disease and post-transplant psychiatric outcomes produced peer-reviewed publications in General Hospital Psychiatry, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Alcohol & Alcoholism. Her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in Italian Language and Literature gives the practice a humanities-trained framing for narrative-based treatment work. Transplant psychiatry and consult-liaison work for medically complex patients sit inside her clinical scope alongside the general adult outpatient panel handled by Emad Tadros. The most clinically demanding cases she manages are post-liver-transplant patients with active alcohol use disorder, where immunosuppression management, relapse prevention, and post-traumatic growth all have to be tracked across the same long-arc psychiatric follow-up.