Background and Experience
Dan Gardner, MD
- Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
- Consultation to Mental Health Therapists and Healthcare Providers
- Traumatic Brain Injury Consultation and Expert Witness
- Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine
- Located in San Diego, CA
AWARDS: Selected by physician peers as one of San Diego's Physicians of Exceptional Excellence (Top Doctors), San Diego Magazine, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2015.
BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
- Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association.
- Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine
- Medical Director, Hidden Valley Ranch Rehabilitation Services (Brain Injury Supported Care)
- Consultant, Learning Services Escondido (Brain Injury Rehabilitation)
- American Association for Technology in Psychiatry
- American Medical Association
- San Diego County Medical Society
- Professional Advisory Council and Past Board Member, San Diego Brain Injury Foundation
PAST POSITIONS:
- Section Head, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Scripps Clinic San Diego.
- Medical Director, NeuroCare San Diego, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Programs
- Faculty and Member, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, San Diego Psychoanalytic Center
- Member, Council, San Diego Psychiatric Society
- Member, Professional Advisory Board, The Wellness Community, San Diego
- Member, Board of Directors, The Center for the Prevention of Medication Side Effects
- Member, Functional Review Panel, Physicians Foundations Health Information Technology
- Member, Advisory Board, SanDiegoPsych.com
- Member, Community Advisory Committee, Operation Family Caregiver
- Member, Medical Advisory Board, Medcorder
EDUCATION and TRAINING:
- Undergraduate: Northwestern University, Bachelor of Science in Medicine
- Medical School: Northwestern University Medical School, M.D. (Honors Program in Medical Education)
- Internship: Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, Internal Medicine
- Residency: University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Psychiatry
- Chief Resident, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service, University Hospital, San Diego, CA
- Post-Residency: Graduate, Adult Psychoanalysis, San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
