Dr. Crystal Carney provides pediatric hospitalist services on behalf of Valley Children’s Medical Group at Lauren Small Children’s Center at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital. She also provides primary pediatric consultation for Bakersfield Memorial’s emergency room.
Dr. Carney’s community and international volunteering experience ranges from the Audrey Hepburn CARES Team, which provides services for suspected victims of child abuse and their families, to serving as a medical volunteer in Tanzania and Nicaragua.
She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Carney received her medical degree from Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She did her residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, where she received the Roberta G. Williams Outstanding Teaching Award and the Leonard I. Dauer Medical Student Teaching Award in 2013. She is board-eligible.
In her free time, she enjoys traveling, hiking, acting and baking designer cupcakes.