Drew Pinsky
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Drew Pinsky (born September 4, 1958 as David Drew Pinsky, nicknamed "Dr. Drew") is a board-certified physician and addiction medicine specialist. He is best known as co-host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline, where he offers advice on a wide array of lifestyle issues affecting teenagers and young adults. Dr. Pinsky's partner Adam Carolla provides the humor with his comical analogies, often poking fun at the straight-laced Drew, and sarcastically calling him a "man of passion".
Dr. Pinsky was born in Pasadena, California, and his father was also a doctor. He majored in biology at Amherst College, graduating in 1980, and earned his M.D. at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1984. He started doing Loveline as a local show on radio station KROQ while still a student, with no pay at first. He served his residency at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, and eventually became chief resident there before moving into private practice. Dr. Pinsky married in 1991, and had triplets with his wife Susan in 1992. Loveline went national in 1995, and the television version began the following year. The show ran on MTV for four years, and still continues on radio. A companion volume, The Dr. Drew and Adam Book: A Survival Guide To Life and Love, was published in 1998.
In addition to his radio show and medical career, Dr. Pinsky also has become quite popular on television talk shows, where his medical expertise and relationship counseling abilities are highly valued. He served as "health and human relations expert" on the first season of the U.S. TV series Big Brother in 2000. In 2003, he released a book called Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again, recounting his experiences running the drug-addiction rehab clinic at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena. He also contributed to the book When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs, published in 2004.
Dr. Pinsky is a trained opera singer. He made his acting debut in 2004, playing the father of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in New York Minute.
Beginning in June 2005, Dr. Pinsky has his own television series, Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, on the Discovery Health Channel.
Dr. Pinsky frequently speaks at college and university campuses throughout the United States, both on his own and alongside his Loveline partner Adam Carolla.