David H. Taylor, MD specializes in the treatment of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and substance abuse. He is board certified in psychiatry. While he focuses on adults and geriatric patients he also works with adolescents ages sixteen and older. He is in solo practice in Marin County.
Dr. Taylor was educated at Yale and the University of Rochester and trained as a psychiatrist at Columbia. He was on the faculty at UCSF where he worked for a number of years full time as an educator and administrator. Dr. Taylor was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
About Dr. Taylor
I focus on thorough, thoughtful and humane care for my patients. I aspire to be accessible and helpful as I help my patients cope with difficult times. I offer cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic psychotherapy in addition to psychopharmacologic care for my patients. Some of my patients see other therapists, consulting with me for psychopharmacologic evaluation and treatment. I specialize in the treatment of depression, bipolar, anxiety, personality and substance use disorders.
Background
Prior to opening my private practice in 2005 I worked for the University of California for eight years as a professor, administrator and clinician at UCSF. I founded the psychopharmacology clinical services at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at UCSF and taught residents and medical students psychiatric evaluation and treatment. For four years I worked nearly full time at the UC Office of the President as the Chief Medical Officer for the UC system of five medical schools and ten hospitals.
Education
I graduated from Yale University in 1985 with a BA Summa Cum Laude in History and I got my MD with Honor from the University of Rochester in 1990. I was an intern at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan and completed a psychiatry residency at Columbia University in 1994. At Columbia I had the opportunity to work with many of the leading thinkers in American psychiatry.