Johns Hopkins School of Medicine graduate (1998) Govender Shamini M MD in Point Loma's Liberty Station provides pediatric care from a Truxtun Road office at the Perlman Pediatrics campus in San Diego. Her residency at Case Western Reserve's Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital built a newborn-through-adolescent clinical foundation, with special interests in breastfeeding support, nutrition, and yoga-informed treatment — a preventive-medicine orientation that generates behavioral health referrals to The Family Guidance and Therapy Center when developmental or emotional concerns surface during well-child visits. Board-certified in Pediatrics and affiliated with Rady Children's Hospital, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, and Scripps Mercy Hospital, she speaks French alongside English. Active adolescents presenting with sports injuries, growth-plate concerns, or post-concussion protocols follow a referral pathway to musculoskeletal specialists such as Spine & Sport Physical Therapy for structured rehabilitation. The highest-complexity work involves coordinating multi-specialist care for medically fragile newborns transitioning from NICU discharge to outpatient pediatric management with concurrent lactation, developmental, and nutritional support.