David Burns, M.D.

Dr. Burns graduated Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College, received his M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has served as Acting Chief of Psychiatry at the Presbyterian/University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (1988) and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Medical School (1998). Dr. Burns is currently Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has received numerous awards for research and teaching. In addition to his academic writings, Dr. Burns has written a number of popular consumer books on mood and relationship problems. His best-selling books, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, The Feeling Good Handbook, and When Panic Attacks have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. When he is not crunching statistics for his research at Stanford, he can be found giving workshops for mental health professionals throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Burns presented for J&K Seminars in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011,2015 & 2018 (on different topics) and received rave reviews each time.