Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, UCSF Bravewell Fellow, Osher Center

David K. Becker, MD, MPH, is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and Affiliate Faculty at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF.  He has a background in international humanitarian aid work and integrative medicine.  Following Medical School, a master’s degree in Public Health, and pediatric residency training at UNC, Chapel Hill, he spent a year overseas with Doctors Without Borders.  Since starting at UCSF he has completed the UCSF Teaching Scholars Program.  In 2006 he completed the University of Arizona’s two-year Associate Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, supported in part by a scholarship award from the Bravewell Collaborative for Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Becker’s interests in integrative medicine are broad.  He has specific training and skills in self-regulatory techniques such as biofeedback and clinical hypnosis.  He practices as an integrative primary care provider, and works with children and families on a consultative basis to develop integrative approaches to a wide range of problems.  His teaching roles include leading small groups for the medical school, attending in the Nursery and the outpatient clinics.