Michael VanBuskirk, MD

Started Practice: 1982

Joined Scripps Clinic Medical Group: 1993

Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital Leadership Roles:

• Chairman of Family Practice, Scripps Memorial Hospital, Encinitas, California, 1984-1986
• Chairman, Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, Scripps Memorial Hospital, Encinitas, California, 1992-2007

Teaching Roles:

• Voluntary Clinical Professor, University of California San Diego, Department of Family and Preventative Medicine

Professional Societies:

• American Academy of Medicine
• International Dermoscopy Society

Board Membership:

• Diplomate, American Board of Family Practice, 1982-1988
• Diplomate of Family Practice, 1988-1994
• Diplomate of Family Practice, 1994-2001
• Diplomate of Family Practice, 2000-2007
• Diplomate of Family Medicine, 2007-2014

Honors & Awards:

• Mejor Alumni (Magna Cum Laude), Doctor of Medicine, Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977

Research Focus:

• Primary care
• Hepatitis C

Clinical Interests Within Specialty:

• Hepatitis C
• Dermoscopy for melanoma and other skin cancers
• Women’s health
• Vasectomy
• Colposcopy
• LEEP
• Endometrial biopsy

Dr. Van Buskirk has provided exceptional health care for North County families since 1982. A husband and father of six, he is fluent in English and Spanish and teaches Sunday school at his church. His hobbies include golf, martial arts and fly-fishing.