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Date of Birth

4 September 1958, Pasadena, California, USA

Birth Name

David Drew Pinsky

Nickname

Dr. Drew

Height

6' (1.83 m)

Mini Biography

Dr. David Drew Pinsky, better known as Dr. Drew, was born September 4, 1958 in Pasadena, California. He is the oldest child with a sister, Dana, now a paralegal, who is six years younger. His mother, Helene, was a homemaker and his father, Morton, was a doctor. Drew used to go on house calls with his father and decided young that he wanted to be a doctor, too. Drew attended Polytechnic High School, a private school in Pasadena, before going to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In high school, Drew played football and was class president. At Amherst, Drew majored in Biology. He graduated from high school in 1976 and from Amherst in 1980. Upon graduation from Amherst, Drew came back to California and attended the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He graduated from USC in 1984. Drew served his residency at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He was appointed to chief resident at HMH. Now he is in private practice in Pasadena where his patients are 60+ years old and also does rounds at Las Encinas Hospital. He started doing the radio version of Loveline in 1983, when he was in his third year of medical school. KROQ was just a small, local station then. Now, Drew does the radio show Sunday through Thursday, 10:00 PM to midnight (Pacific Time). He started doing the MTV version of Loveline about 5 years ago. Drew tapes the shows on Fridays and Saturdays. Dr. Drew met his wife, Susan, at a bar in Laguna Beach, California in the 1980s. They have triplets; Douglas, Jordan, and Paulina. The triplets were conceived by invitro fertilization. In his little spare time, Drew likes to play with his children, read by the pool, play the piano, and sing opera (he's a baritone & he trained for 12 years).

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Mini Biography

Dr. Drew Pinsky is the host of radio's "Loveline" and "Dr. Drew Live" and "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" on Vh1 and MTV's "Sex... With Mom and Dad".

Dr. Drew is America's most listened to doctor and is heard nationwide on two syndicated radio programs. Millions know him as the host of the radio call-in program "Loveline" which he has continually hosted since 1982. He is also heard on the radio talking about mental health, addiction and relationships on "Dr. Drew Live." What you might not know is that Dr. Drew Pinsky is a practicing medical doctor and is board-certified in addiction medicine. He is the Service Director of the Chemical Dependency Program/Residential Treatment Center at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, a staff member at Huntington Memorial Hospital, continues to run a private practice and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck USC School of Medicine.

In 1982 Dr. Drew began his radio career when KROQ Los Angeles asked him to answer medical questions from listeners. "Loveline," syndicated by Westwood One, is now heard on over 100 radio stations across the country five nights a week. Intelligent, compassionate, and never judgmental, millions of young people turn to Dr. Drew for answers to tough questions. Television was the natural next step and in 1996 "Loveline" began an unheard of 5-year run on MTV with co-host Adam Corolla. Dr. Drew's current Loveline co-host is KROQ DJ, Stryker.

Dr. Drew is a favorite guest on morning television programs such as NBC's The Today Show and ABC's The View, as well as various entertainment and talk shows such as The Tyra Banks Show, CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, CNN's Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper 360, MSNBC's Scarborough Country, E!, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight. Frequently called on by the national news media for his expert opinions, Dr. Drew has been profiled in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Playboy, was named one of the top 10 Real Sexiest Men by O Magazine, and one of the top 10 Silver Foxes by OK Magazine.

Never one to rest, Dr. Drew spends his weekends speaking at college campuses across the country. He has spoken to the student body at Princeton, Stanford, John Hopkins, University of Southern California, Georgetown, Kent State, The University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Northwestern and many, many others. Dedicated to helping young people connect, Dr. Drew has spoken on Capitol Hill for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and has participated in the State of Our Youth at the Carter Center with Rosalind Carter, His time is well spent with Advocates for Youth, The Independent Women's Forum, The Media Project, Entertainment Industry Council and Hillside Home for Children. For his outstanding contributions, Dr. Drew has been honored multiple times by the Kaiser SHINE (Sexual Health in Entertainment) Awards, Planned Parenthood of America, the PRISM Awards, the Claire Foundation and Huntington Hospital. In 2008 he received the Leadership Award from PRISM/EIC.

After receiving his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and his M.D. from the University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Dr. Drew continued with USC for his residency. He then became chief resident at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. Dr. Drew's professional activities in the medial field are numerous. His membership and activities in professional societies include the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the California Medical Association and the American Society of Internal Medicine.

In August 2003, Dr. Drew released a book entitled Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper-Collins). He contributed to, When Painkillers Become Dangerous (HCI Books and the Hazelden Foundation), in 2004. In 2006 Dr. Drew co-authored the first academic study on celebrities and narcissism published in the Journal of Research in Personality (Elsevier.) His latest book, Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper-Collins) will be released in March/April 2009.

Dr. Drew made his feature film debut in "New York Minute" (Warner Bros.) with Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in 2003.

Dr. Drew is a dedicated father of teenage triplets and enjoys spending time raising his children with his wife Susan. He loves listening to opera and Louie Armstrong, staying physically active with daily running, weight training, skiing and body surfing.

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Spouse

Susan Sailer

(20 July 1991 - present) 3 children

Trivia

Triplets born; sons Jordan Davidson Pinsky and Douglas Drew Pinsky; daughter Paulina Marie Pinsky. [11 November 1992]

Son of Helene Stanton.

Where Are They Now

Dr. Drew is still co-hosting the 2-hour nation-wide radio talk show "LoveLine", which the TV Series is based upon.

(1998) Signed contract with Columbia TriStar to be host of syndicated talk show which will air in 1999.

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