Dr. Charles H. Brinegar

Charles H. Brinegar Jr., M.D.,
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, LLU


Medical Director LLUMC Diabetes Treatment Center
   (1970-1996, 2000-present)

Bachelor of Arts, Speech, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA, 1959

Doctor of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA,   1963

Medical Internship @ Washington Sanitarium & Hosp.,
   Washington, D.C., 1964

Internal Medicine Residency, Loma Linda Univ. Med. Center,                       Loma Linda, CA, 1969

Fellowship in Diabetes: Joslin Clinic & New England                                  Deaconess Hosp. Boston, MA, 1970     

My life began quietly in La Jolla, California where I was born to Ann and Charlie Brinegar.  My mother was a housewife except during WW II when she worked helping to assemble airplanes in San Diego.  My father began his work life as an owner of print shop where he published a weekly newspaper and performed the usual small printers work of wedding announcements and business cards. He was later to become a Chiropractor after some health set backs. (I was introduced to alternative medicine early in life). 

 I attended high school in San Diego and then undergraduate school at Pacific Union College, a small Seventh Day Adventist liberal arts college in northern California. I went on to medical school at Loma Linda University graduating in 1963. I was married in 1961 and have three wonderful children who continue to be a great joy to me.

My internship was in Tacoma Park, Maryland at a small community hospital. I was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1964 and spent two wonderful years at an Army depot in Sacramento, California.   After the military, I began a residency in Internal Medicine at Loma Linda University. Residency was followed by a fellowship in Diabetes at the Joslin Clinic in Boston, Ma.

I then returned to Loma Linda University and have been on the faculty since 1970 with several responsibilities including being the Medical Director of the Diabetes Treatment Center. Between 1996 and 1999 my wife Meredith and I spent the most rewarding years of our lives on Guam.

My hobbies include golf, photography, backpacking (trips to the Himalayas and hiking 222 miles on the John Muir trail in the Sierras of California have been highlights) and working on Austin Healeys (an old English car).