Cornell-trained in biomedical engineering and emergency medicine, Erin King, MD provides urgent and emergency care at Sharp Rees-Stealy's Grossmont location in La Mesa. Her emergency department work generates referral pathways for dental trauma, post-fall occlusal injuries, and abscess presentations to providers within the Grossmont medical complex including Gentle Dental Grossmont. Dr King earned her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2010 and completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of California San Diego, where she served as chief resident. Her published research in the Journal of Emergency Medicine on residency-to-practice transition reflects a clinical-education focus that extends to pain-management discharge coordination with outpatient specialists such as California Pain Consultants | La Mesa. Highest-complexity urgent presentations in her practice involve point-of-care ultrasound-guided abscess drainage, procedural sedation for fracture reduction, and laceration repair using layered closure techniques with absorbable deep-dermal sutures.