I received an M.S. degree in Pharmacology from New York Medical College, and an M.D. degree from New York University School of Medicine. I did my pediatric training at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Then there was a two-year fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics at Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA. I am a board-certified Pediatrician and a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacologists. I was on the faculty at the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine. I am currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University. In Northern California, I am in private practice which I limit to behavioral, developmental and learning problems of children and adolescents and psychopharmacology. Together with my wife Charan we wrote The Reading Lesson, a step-by-step learn to read program for young children and children with reading disabilities.