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Full Drew Pinsky Biography
David Drew Pinsky (born September 4, 1958), popularly known as "Dr. Drew", is an American board-certified internist and Addiction Medicine specialist. He teaches at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, but is best known as a host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show, Loveline, where he offers advice on a wide array of lifestyle issues affecting not only teenagers and young adults, but people of all ages.
Pinsky was born in Pasadena, California and attended Polytechnic School; his father was also a doctor while his mother, Helene Stanton, was a singer and actress. He majored in biology at Amherst College, graduating in 1980, and earned his M.D. at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1984. He served his residency at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, and eventually became chief resident there before moving into private practice. Pinsky married in 1991, and he and his wife Susan had triplets Douglas, Jordan, and Paulina in 1992. Pinsky has also stated many times on Loveline that he was a contestant on an episode of Wheel of Fortune in 1984, where he won forty gallons of Sunny Delight and a year's supply of Turtle Wax as consolation prizes.
While still a medical student, Pinsky began co-hosting the advice show Loveline on local radio station KROQ, with co-hosts Poorman and Scott Mason with no pay at first. Loveline went national in 1995, and the television version launched on MTV the following year, hosted by Pinsky and Adam Carolla. The MTV show ran for four years, while the radio show continues on today with KROQ radio DJ, Stryker. A companion volume, The Dr. Drew and Adam Book: A Survival Guide To Life and Love, was published in 1998.
Although referred to by patients as Dr. Pinsky, the name "Dr. Drew" came to be as he started his radio career while attending med school. Not wanting to promote his own name or practice, Pinsky took the over-the-air title of Dr. Drew to separate his professional medical and radio careers.
In addition to his radio show and medical career, Pinsky also has gained fame on television talk shows, where his medical expertise and relationship counseling abilities are highly valued. He served as "health and human relations expert" on the first season of the U.S. TV series Big Brother in 2000.
A frequent guest speaker on CNN, Pinsky has also hosted his own television series, Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, on the Discovery Health Channel. His latest series on the same network is called Strictly Dr. Drew, addressing everyday health issues, premiered on July 25, 2006, and continues to air weekly on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm PST.
In 2007, Pinsky began filming a reality television show which may involve celebrities in a rehab facility. He will serve as the resident medical expert. "Celebrity Rehab" is expected to air in the Winter of 2007 on VH-1.
On November, 27, 2007, he began another nationally syndicated talk radio show also focusing on relationships and mental health originating from KGIL in Los Angeles, airing weekdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PST.
Pinsky is a trained opera singer and also plays the piano and bass guitar. He made his acting debut in 2004, playing the father of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's characters in New York Minute. He has also made acting appearances on The Man Show and Dawson's Creek and as a voice actor on Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Crank Yankers, and Wild Hogs. He frequently makes appearances on MSNBC, The Tyra Banks Show and Tom Green Live.
Pinsky frequently speaks on college and university campuses throughout the United States, on his own and, previously, with his former Loveline partner Adam Carolla. Asteroid 4536 Drewpinsky is named in his honor. |
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