Dr. McNerney is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is board certified in Pediatric medicine. He is a native Californian raised in Southern California. He completed his undergraduate training in Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and completed Medical School at St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He finished his residency in General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles in 2000. He spent two years on active duty in the US Air Force stationed at David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, in Fairfield, California. After that, he spent three years with Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, California. He moved to the Central Coast in 2006. Dr. McNerney lives in Paso Robles with his wife Courtney and his two children, Mairin and Dennis.