Humberto Gallego, MD - Sharp Rees-Stealy Santee

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Humberto Gallego, MD, a board-certified dermatologist at Sharp Rees-Stealy Santee, completed his residency at the University of Minnesota and an internal medicine internship at the Mayo Clinic before joining the Cuyamaca Street campus. Since finishing his residency in 1997, his dermatology caseload has ranged from phototherapy-based psoriasis protocols to scleroderma monitoring, and he coordinates musculoskeletal skin-condition referrals with Spine & Sport Physical Therapy across the street on Cuyamaca. He is affiliated with both Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital and maintains fluency in Spanish, expanding dermatologic access for Santee's bilingual population along the Cuyamaca Street medical corridor. Basal cell carcinoma detection and excision constitute a significant portion of his surgical volume, with tissue specimens sent to on-site pathology for margin verification. Patients presenting with dermatomal pain patterns receive coordinated evaluation alongside the spinal and soft-tissue expertise at Whalen Chiropractic on Cuyamaca Street. His highest-complexity interventions include wide-excision melanoma resections with sentinel lymph node biopsy coordination and post-surgical dermatologic surveillance scheduling.