Fred S. Vernacchia, M.D.
Fred S. Vernacchia, M.D., is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist at San Luis Diagnostic Center-Dignity Health in San Luis Obispo, CA. He has served as the Medical Director since 1994.
Dr. Vernacchia has a degree in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego. He graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco, where he received subspecialty training in neuroradiology under Dr.’s T. Hans Newton and David Norman.
He was named the San Luis Obispo County “Physician of the Year” in 2016.
Dr. Vernacchia is a reviewer for ACR Practice Guidelines and acts as the principle reviewer for QCT Bone Densitometry and an associate reviewer for DXA Bone Density and PET/CT. Dr. Vernacchia has authored/co-authored many medical journals articles and has presented at numerous medical association meetings.
He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at Touro University, California.
Before becoming Medical Director at San Luis Diagnostic Center, he served as Medical Director, MRI Center of SLO, Department Director of Sierra Vista Radiology Department, and Managing Partner of Radiology Associates of SLO.
Dr. Vernacchia holds society memberships in the following organizations:
• Radiology Society of North America
• Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
• American Roentgen-Ray Society
• California Radiology Society
• American College of Radiology
• California Medical Association
• Central Coast Medical Association