Dr. David Puder went to U.C. Berkeley and majored in Molecular and Cellular Biology while competing on the Cal Rowing Team.  His senior year they won the team national championship.  After, he went to Loma Linda School of Medicine and subsequently spent a year doing internal medicine, then completed his psychiatry residency at Loma Linda. He joined the faculty of Loma Linda University, where he is the medical director of a partial program and intensive outpatient program for people with medical and psychiatric issues called “MEND”.