Dr Todd Baumbacher, MD is an ABEM board-certified emergency physician at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa's Grossmont area. His emergency evaluations of visual complaints, corneal abrasions, and orbital trauma utilize the department's diagnostic imaging resources and generate follow-up referrals within the Grossmont medical corridor to providers such as Grossmont Vision Center Optometry. Dr Baumbacher graduated from New York Medical College in 2008 and completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, where he published research on convulsions associated with synthetic cannabinoid toxicity. His toxicology background informs substance-related emergency presentations, while his musculoskeletal assessment skills produce referral pathways to post-acute spinal and joint specialists including Acru Health - La Mesa. Highest-acuity cases in his scope include therapeutic hypothermia initiation for post-cardiac-arrest neuroprotection and CT-guided interpretation for acute intracranial hemorrhage within the hospital's STEMI and stroke activation protocols.