Heart Care

San Diego’s first choice for team-based primary and specialty care

Dr. Siu Ming Geary, Internal Medicine, Scripps Clinic physician examines a patient in a clinical office.

Siu Ming Geary, MD, Internal Medicine, Scripps Clinic

San Diego’s first choice for team-based primary and specialty care

Caring for San Diegans since 1924, Scripps Clinic is San Diego’s first choice for exceptional primary care and highly specialized and coordinated specialty care. Scripps Clinic offers a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services that are nationally recognized for quality, excellence and innovation. From primary to specialty care, our team-based model is designed to provide the best possible care and outcomes for you and your family. More than 900 providers and physicians provide 1.5 million patient visits a year coordinated through an integrated electronic health record.

Scripps Clinic doctors — renowned specialists and experts

Scripps Clinic doctors — renowned specialists and experts

With Scripps Clinic, Scripps Green Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, you have access to a team of more than 900 highly skilled, board-certified physicians and providers in more than 60 disciplines, including specialists and surgeons who are rated among America’s best by U.S. News & World Report: 



In addition to a focus on excellent clinical care, Scripps Clinic graduate medical education programs are training new physicians. Scripps Clinic’s highly sought after and nationally accredited programs are training doctors at all levels of post-graduate education, including those who have just graduated from medical school and those who are accepted for advance specialty and subspecialty training. For more than 50 years, Scripps Clinic fellowship programs have provided advanced post-graduate training leading to board certification in multiple medical and surgical specialties and sub-specialties. 


Scripps Clinic also supports the advancement of medicine through groundbreaking research, including new medical therapies, advanced medical procedures and minimally invasive surgical procedures. This makes it possible to offer patients new options, including the replacement of heart valves through an artery. Ongoing work is focused on advancing knowledge for a range of challenging disorders, including the search for new treatments for Parkinson’s disease and ongoing efforts to regrow human cartilage, thereby avoiding the need for joint replacement.

Why choose Scripps Clinic

Paul Teirstein, MD, one of the nationally renowned Scripps Clinic doctors who provide exceptional care in San Diego.

Dr. Paul Teirstein, Interventional Cardiology, Scripps Clinic

Why choose Scripps Clinic

Scripps Clinic has been caring for San Diegans since philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps established the Scripps Metabolic Clinic in La Jolla. In addition to training new physicians, we have been advancing medicine for decades. Our research brings promising new therapies and effective treatments to our patients from around the country.

Scripps Clinical Research conducts numerous clinical trials to bring the latest treatments to our patients and helps advance health care for people around the world. Our physicians conduct clinical studies on new medications and devices to determine their effectiveness and, when appropriate, accelerate their adoption. Scripps Clinical Research serves patients from throughout San Diego County and beyond. Learn more about the history of Scripps Clinic.

Scripps Clinic offers comprehensive and convenient primary care services for all ages, with a focus on preventive medicine. Our internal medicine physicians, family medicine physicians and pediatricians provide exceptional care in locations throughout San Diego County and accept a growing list of health plans.


Scripps Clinic primary care providers offer annual physicals, preventive health screenings, vaccinations and wellness visits, among other services. To accommodate busy schedules, providers offer video visits as well as early morning, evening and Saturday hours at most locations and appointments within 24 hours for established patients. When specialty care is needed, our primary care physicians partner with the extensive network of Scripps Clinic experts throughout the region. 


Scripps HealthExpress offers convenient, walk-in care for minor injuries and illnesses for adults and children seven days a week. Urgent care locations in Scripps Clinic Rancho Bernardo and Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines treat patients who need care the same day for a condition that is not life-threatening. Many Scripps Clinic locations include outpatient surgery centers, laboratory services and imaging. Three Scripps Clinic locations offer infusion services as part of our fully-integrated cancer care.


As an integrated medical group, Scripps Clinic primary care and specialty physicians and surgeons at any of our locations have access to your secure electronic health records to ensure continuity of care and enhanced medical accuracy. If you need language assistance, qualified medical interpreters are available seven days a week at Scripps' locations during regular business hours.

At Scripps Clinic, our doctors work together as a team to help you navigate an illness or injury and get on a path to recovery and health. Scripps Clinic practices under a multidisciplinary medical group model, which means that doctors consult each other and work together to provide care with the ultimate aim of delivering the best outcomes for patients.


Scripps Clinic offers a built-in referral network for specialty care when you need it, and the MyScripps secure online patient portal allows you to be more involved in your care, message your doctor and view your medical record at any time.

Expert specialty programs


See a full list of Scripps Clinic services.

Resources and quick links

Scripps Clinic has multiple locations in the greater San Diego area. Whether you need preventive screenings, routine lab work, imaging, walk-in care or more specialized treatment for an illness or injury, you will find comprehensive care close to home.

For minor illnesses and injuries as well as select vaccinations, we offer Scripps HealthExpress same-day, walk-in clinics at several Scripps Clinic locations.


Let us know you’re On Your Way to Scripps HealthExpress and find a location near you.

Scripps Clinic has two urgent care locations. Both are open seven days a week.


Scripps Clinic Urgent Care Torrey Pines

10710 North Torrey Pines Rd.

San Diego, CA 92037

858-554-8638

Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Get directions to urgent care in La Jolla/Torrey Pines.


Scripps Clinic Urgent Care Rancho Bernardo

15004 Innovation Dr.

San Diego, CA 92128

858-605-7171

Open daily from 8 am - 8 pm.

Get directions to urgent care in Rancho Bernardo.

For your convenience, Scripps Clinic has multiple lab locations in the greater San Diego area. Appointments are recommended.

We accept many insurance plans. Insurance plans may change which services and providers are covered throughout the year. We recommend calling your insurance organization to confirm your covered services and out-of-pocket costs, including co-pays and deductibles.

Leading-edge cardiovascular treatment at Scripps Clinic

Paul Teirstein, MD, Interventional Cardiologist at Scripps Clinic in prep for surgery.

Dr. Paul Teirstein, Interventional Cardiology, Scripps Clinic

Leading-edge cardiovascular treatment at Scripps Clinic

When it comes to matters of the heart, the doctors you choose can be the most important health decision you’ll ever make.


That’s why it’s good to know that cardiologists at Scripps Clinic provide evidence-based care that puts you first. U.S. News & World Report has consistently ranked Scripps as one of America's Best Hospitals in the nation, and the best in San Diego, for cardiology and heart surgery. 


Scripps Clinic general cardiologists are on the front lines of prevention and early diagnosis of heart and vascular conditions that can pose a threat to your health and well-being. And Scripps Clinic is the only health care provider in San Diego with a focus on specialized heart care for women.


Scripps Clinic is where cardiovascular discoveries are made and the latest procedures happen first. Among them:


  • First on the West Coast to implant coronary stents
  • First in San Diego to utilize catheter ablation to cure arrhythmias
  • First in San Diego to use approved cryoablation (cold) technology to cure atrial fibrillation
  • First in the US to implant a dual-chamber defibrillator
  • First noninvasive peripheral vascular lab in the US
  • First in the US to use minimally invasive tools to remove plaque from coronary arteries
  • First in Southern California to surgically correct Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a condition that causes extremely rapid heart rates
  • First in Southern California to perform open heart surgery to cure arrhythmias
  • First in California to utilize Carrot EP lab integrated monitor system

San Diegans trust Scripps Clinic for heart care

Patients and referring heart doctors from across Southern California and the US look to Scripps Clinic cardiologists to provide the most advanced treatments for complex heart conditions and diseases. 

  • General cardiology, including women-specific care provided by female cardiologists
  • Imaging services, including HeartFlow and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) 
  • Structural heart care, including TAVR, Watchman, MitraClip and minimally invasive mitral valve replacement
  • Heart rhythm care and comprehensive electrophysiology 
  • Cardiothoracic and minimally invasive robotic surgeries
  • Heart failure and pulmonary hypertension care
  • Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD)
  • Minimally invasive outpatient procedures 
  • Cryptogenic stroke care
  • Cardiac rehabilitation
  • Integrative medicine
  • Arrhythmia 
  • Cardiomyopathy 
  • Congenital heart defects 
  • Heart attack 
  • Heart disease 
  • Heart failure 
  • Heart valve disease 
  • Peripheral artery disease 
  • Structural heart disease

Scripps Clinic heart care locations

Scripps Clinic has more than 30 board-certified cardiologists who provide heart care across the region. Scripps Clinic cardiologists see patients at the following locations:



Scripps Clinic cardiologists perform inpatient and outpatient surgeries at the following hospital campuses: