About David Taylor
I work in a solo psychiatry practice in Corte Madera. My practice is small and simple. 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 disorder, anxiety, personality and substance use disorders.
I work primarily out of my office on Tamal Vista Boulevard but also visit seniors who live in assisted living or skilled nursing facilities in Marin. I see adolescents as well as adults and my patients range in age from sixteen to ninety seven.
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. While that was an exciting and very challenging chapter in my career I am very happy to be back doing psychiatry full time and seeing my family more often.
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. I have spent the majority of my career in academic psychiatry largely because of the love of learning and teaching I gained at Columbia. Since I finished my training I have been moving west ever since, spending three years in Kentucky on the faculty at the University of Louisville before coming to California.
Personal Practices
I practice Ashtanga yoga several times a week. Yoga and trail running on Mt. Tamalpais are among my great pleasures and my interest in and passion for physical fitness is a large part of my psychiatric practice. I completed my fourth Dipsea Race in 2008. I believe that in addition to regular exercise and a healthy diet that there are many interesting and helpful alternative remedies for mental illnesses and that these should be offered alone or alongside modern psychopharamaceuticals.
I was born and raised in New York, the child of two physicians. I am married with three children and we live in West Marin with our dog, cat, and twenty or so hens.