Dr. David Drew Pinsky, better known as Dr. Drew, was born on September 4, 1958, in Pasadena, California. He is the oldest child with a sister, Dana, who is six years younger. His mother, Helene, was a homemaker, and his father, Morton, was a doctor.
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, with an undergraduate degree, from Amherst in 1980.
Upon graduation, Drew came back to California and attended the University of Southern California, School of Medicine. He graduated with an M.D. from USC in 1984. Drew served his residency at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He was appointed to chief resident at HMH.
Dr. Drew is a practicing physician who is board certified in internal and addiction medicine, still runs a private practice, is on staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck USC School of Medicine.
Dr. Drew hosted the nationally syndicated radio show "Loveline", where he had taken calls from listeners since 1983. He began hosting 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.
