Bari Cunningham D, MD

Bari Cunningham is such a sweet and thorough Dr. She is always busy and was recommended to us by a close friend.
HOWEVER her office could use a lesson on how to treat and keep patients. I would be disappointed if my front office staff had the lack of professionalism as hers does.
We (my older daughter and I) scheduled an appointment a year in advance and within that time we moved, my daughter moved from home, and I did not receive a reminder call.
I received a phone message saying that we missed our appointment and were getting charged $ 50. I wish they would have called and left me a message like that before the appointment so I could have scheduled myself off of work and planned to have my daughter and I at the appointment.
When I called to ask why I only received a call saying I missed the appointment and owe $ 50, Jayla from the front office said to me «Don’t you write your appointments down». And she said «If you had an appointment last month why are you just now calling a month later».
It was my fault for checking my message a week or so later and then finally finding a moment to call Dr. Cunningham’s office a month later, but that still does not constitute treatment or verbal conversation like that.
Even if I was in the wrong, patients shouldn’t be treated like they are beneath the office staff.
Jayla for future reference, you need to treat others with respect. Dr. Cunningham has you there to represent the high qualities of her office and her valuable services. When you treat people like they are not valued, it then spreads to patients and future patient, which is not fair to Dr. Cunningham. You are in a business of customer service and no one wants to be treated poorly. Whether they are right or wrong.

I saw Dr. Cunningham for my 10 month old daughter. I was seen on time with no delay! I was so impressed with how kind everyone in that office is. Dr Cunningham was very professional and took her time addressing all my questions and concerns. I would recommend her to all my family and friends!

She knows what she is doing, but is very busy and is not really in tune with the patient, does not take pictures, so we came in for a visit for my son, she was in a hurry prescribed some stuff, made it sound like no problem everything is going to be fine, 3 prescriptions cost over $ 600 a month total, did not discuss cost or prescription coverage. There are other options than what she prescribed. 6 months later follow up visit she looks at my son and says wow you have not gotten any better, but in fact she is wrong he is quite a bit better but not clear, but does not notice because she has no records only her memory from a 5 minute consultation 7 months prior. She proceeds to prescribe new meds asks us if we want pills or creams, without discussion of the pros and cons of either, and or cost and side effects. then poof she is gone. So if you want a doctor that will actually talk to you about the treatment move on. If you want someone to give you prescriptions you are in the right place. I am not saying she does not know what she is doing, I am just saying she keeps it all to herself.

Dr. Cunningham is the most criminally negligent doctor I have met in my life. She wanted to subscribe a Acutene-​like product AND birth control pill to to treat my 15-​year old daughter’s acne. BOTH products are extremely dangerous and would result in complete damaging affect on her, just Google it why. These doctors receive commission and /​or other monetary incentives from the pahrmaceutical companies, and do not care if the products they give young girls will ruin them for life. She should be banned from practicing medicine. I have never experienced such a bad doctor,

Dr. Cunningham is our favorite pediatric physician. Unfortunately, we have a number of doctors for my 2 year old son who has Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis. Dr. Cunningham has been seeing our son since he was 4 months old. She’s thorough but gentle. He doesn’t even cry during the procedures/​biopsies. She’s also great at communicating with us, his parents, and trying to alleviate our fears without whitewashing the situation. Highly recommend her and her staff. (Oh, as a side note, we have less of a wait time here than at Rady’s or at his regular pediatrician’s office).

Great dermatolgist. HOWEVER… Terrible appointment mangement by her ofice manger… every time!!! Show up early for your appt and still wait 45 + minutes beyond your appt time to be seen. Scheduling patients is not rocket science… schedule fewer people and get your clients in & out Unfortunately what should take 1 hour from your day… takes 3 hours when visiting this practice.

Your search for the perfect Dermatologist is over.
Dr. Cunningham has taken my problem and fixed it on my first visit with her.
I had been to many other Md’s for the same issue without a positive result. I even went out of state to a worldwide known medical center to get help…

If you were to have read my other reviews, you know that I didn’t really enjoy my last dermatologist visit. My boss (my walking San Diego concierge) suggested I go and see Dr. Cunningham for what looked like the start of something special on my leg.
So you know when you walk into a business that has a great vibe, everyone is happy, laughing and it’s like you have know them forever? That is exactly what Dr. Cunningham has. Not only are the front desk folks super nice and helpful, the staff is sweet and he is the kicker… Dr. Cunningham is endearing and lovely as well. Turns out I just had the case of the neurotics and I am feeling good again. Dr. Cunningham is worth the schlep!