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Possessing over 16 years of professional medical experience, Dr. David Wexler devotes his practice to assisting those with mental health issues to find the medications that will most effectively return them to a high level of functionality. In his capacity as a psychopharmacologist, Dr. David Wexler works closely with his patients' therapists and medical specialists to streamline a treatment plan that will set them on the road to recovery. Dr. David Wexler looks carefully at existing medical problems and medications that may trigger psychiatric symptoms, establishes whether there will be any negative interactions between prescribed drugs, and then walks the patient through the psychotropic medication management process. Dr. David Wexler also confers with his patients' medical specialists and therapists to maximize his treatments' efficacy.
In private practice for a decade, Dr. David Wexler has since built a network of patients and colleagues. Dr. David Wexler has been sought out by a wide variety of patients and professionals, including the San Francisco 49ers, for which he served as the designated psychopharmacologist. Among the numerous honors Dr. David Wexler has received over the years are the Patient's Choice Award in 2008 and 2009 and his inclusion on the 2010 list of Best Doctors Bay Area.
Dr. David Wexler has been an active participant in the give and take nature of the medical community, endeavoring to share his knowledge with his peers. A former Adjunct Clinical Instructor for the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dr. David Wexler also stayed involved as the Chairman for the Continuing Medical Education Committee during his tenure at Kaiser Santa Clara.
Dr. David Wexler possesses a Bachelor's degree in Biology with emphasis on Foreign Languages as an informal minor from Harvard University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. Dr. David Wexler also completed a number of postgraduate linguistic courses at UCSD. In 1994, Dr. David Wexler completed his psychiatry residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. David Wexler works out of Portola Valley, California. When he is not working, Dr. David Wexler spends his time playing piano and oboe, traveling, and learning about different cultures.
- Experiences
- David Brian Wexler, MD, Inc.
: 01/2000 -
Present
Psychiatrist
David B. Wexler, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego, specializing in the treatment of relationships in conflict. He is the Executive Director of the non-profit Relationship Training Institute, which provides education and treatment internationally for relationship development and the prevention and treatment of relationship violence. He has also served as the Clinical and Administrative Supervisor for the NIMH-sponsored research study of domestic violence in the Navy from 1991 through 1996, and again from 2001 to 2006.
Dr. Wexler is the author of five books and many articles and book chapters, including:
When Good Men Behave Badly: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Relationship
Is He Depressed or What?:
What to Do When the Man You Love is Moody, Irritable, and Withdrawn.
Men In Therapy: New Approaches for Effective Treatment
The Adolescent Self: Strategies for Self-management, Self-soothing, and Self-esteem in Adolescents.
He has been featured on the Dr. Phil show and the TODAY show, in the Washington Post, “O” magazine, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Men’s Health, and on dozens of radio and TV programs throughout North America to help educate the public about relationships in conflict and how to resolve them.
Based on 25 years of experience in the field of domestic violence, Dr. Wexler has also authored a treatment manual with accompanying workbooks entitled STOP Domestic Violence: Innovative Skills, Techniques, Options, and Plans for Better Relationships. He has trained thousands of community professionals, military personnel, and law enforcement officials through extensive training seminars on the The STOP Program model throughout the world. The California Psychological Association has also designated Dr. Wexler as a Master Lecturer and he received the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology award at their annual convention in 2003.
Dr. Wexler recently received the prestigious award of Practitioner of the Year from the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity, a division of the American Psychological Association.
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- Education
- UC San Diego
: 09/1984 -
06/1990
Medicine
MD
- Harvard University
: 09/1980 -
06/1984
Biology
BA
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