David Hawkins, DO serves as Division Head of Family Medicine at Scripps Clinic Santee, delivering primary and sports-medicine care from 278 Town Center Parkway in Santee's Town Center commercial district. Sports-injury evaluations and post-surgical rehabilitation prescriptions route to musculoskeletal providers including Santee Physical Therapy on Prospect Avenue for targeted rotator-cuff, ACL, and ankle-stabilization protocols. Dr. Hawkins earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Western University of Health Sciences and completed a sports medicine fellowship at LA County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center following family medicine residency at PIH Health Hospital in Whittier. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and maintains hospital affiliations with Scripps Green Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. Spinal manipulation and joint-mobilization referrals for acute neck and lower-back strain connect patients with chiropractic providers such as The Joint Chiropractic on Mission Gorge Road when osteopathic manual therapy alone does not resolve symptoms. Sideline concussion assessments utilize the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 6 protocol, scoring balance-error and immediate-memory components to determine return-to-play clearance timelines for adolescent and adult athletes.