Board-certified in preventive medicine and public health, Dr. Monica Perlman, MD practices internal medicine and primary care in San Diego's Kensington neighborhood from Space 102 at 4142 Adams Avenue in the 92116 ZIP. Perlman founded the Perlman Clinic in 2005 with locations across San Diego County, and this Kensington office — opened in 2017 — extends her patient-centered model to the Adams Avenue corridor east of Kensington Drive. She earned her medical degree at UC Irvine School of Medicine, completed residency at UC San Diego Medical Center, and holds a Master of Public Health with an emphasis in occupational medicine from San Diego State University. Diabetic and hypertensive patients whose conditions carry ocular risk factors receive referrals for dilated retinal imaging at CATHERINE F. SORIANO, OD to screen for the retinopathy and glaucoma patterns Perlman's research background flags during metabolic-panel review. Perlman serves as a Voluntary Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego and has conducted published research on therapies for lung disease, hypertension, and diabetes, as well as care-management model efficacy. Fluent in Spanish, Perlman provides bilingual consultations for patients who travel from Mexico and across San Diego County to access her preventive-care emphasis — annual physicals, cancer screenings, cardiovascular risk stratification, and lifestyle-modification plans built on the occupational-medicine training she used as Director of Primary Care at Scripps Clinic. The Kensington office sits on Adams Avenue between Kensington Drive and Marlborough Drive, in the village-scale commercial zone near the Kensington-Normal Heights Branch Library. Women's health cases whose primary-care plans include hormonal assessment share a referral channel with Karly Nuttall Midwifery & Hormone Health for endocrine-focused protocols that complement the lab-driven monitoring Perlman runs at each visit. The practice accepts credit and debit cards and offers telehealth video visits through the Perlman Clinic portal for established patients who cannot reach the Adams Avenue location in person.