Meet Your Doctor
Dr. Mario Salguero, MD, PhD
Dr. Mario Salguero did not take the usual route into psychiatry. He earned an MD-PhD, completed advanced studies in clinical nutrition, and finished his psychiatry residency at UC San Diego, where he served as chief resident in the Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Medicine unit. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and has been recognized for his clinical work and research, including UCSD's Best Resident Clinician recognition and the Lewis L. Judd Research Award.
It's why he treats depression, anxiety, and OCD as real medical conditions with real mechanisms, and also as problems that live inside a person's sleep, stress, history, and health. He evaluates before he treats, prescribes conservatively, and keeps studying, because the science does.
He founded Brain Strength for Life to do something most practices don't: put comprehensive psychiatric care and FDA-cleared TMS under one physician. Patients who come in for medication get an honest look at whether a drug-free option would serve them better. Patients who come in for TMS get a psychiatrist planning their treatment, not a technician following a script.