Board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Viet D. Nguyen, MD joined Balboa Nephrology Medical Group in 2020 after completing internal medicine residency at Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego and a nephrology fellowship at UC San Diego, preceded by his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. His Hillcrest office at 4060 Fourth Ave Suite 220 serves chronic kidney disease and dialysis patients across the Hillcrest and Coronado service areas, working in shared-care coordination with general internists at Hillcrest Internal Medicine San Diego for patients managing CKD alongside diabetes and hypertension. Dr. Nguyen speaks Vietnamese, which supports intake for Vietnamese-speaking patients navigating diabetic and hypertensive nephropathy, glomerular disease, and pre- and post-transplant care. Hospital affiliations run through Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego and Sharp Coronado Hospital for inpatient nephrology consults and acute kidney injury management. Inpatient internal medicine consults for hospitalized dialysis patients route through the UCSD academic network including the UC San Diego Medical Center Internal Medicine Group Practice for admissions at UCSD Hillcrest. Kidney transplant evaluation and post-transplant care — immunosuppression titration, rejection monitoring, and management of post-transplant hypertension and proteinuria — rank among the most complex cases managed from this office.