Click on the picture to see Dr. B ask:
        Can you 'ear me out there?

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Staff doctor at Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, part-time, three years. (Medical Service and teaching U.C. medical students)
One of founding directors of Santa Clara County Methadone Clinic
Numerous speeches and organization of seminars and workshops about drug use and abuse, addiction, and alienation. 1967 to present.
Advisory Board of Health to San Jose City Counsel, 1965-1976
Member Public Policy Committee, Calif. Society of Addiction Medicine, 1999 to 2004
Consultant, Staff Trainer, Catholic Charities Chemical Dependency and Dual Diagnosis Treatment Program --"Choices", 1998-2009


Dr. B organized Dr. Sunday's Medicine Show in 1967. The proceeds from the event held at Family Park in the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds assured the survival of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic.  See the Clinic's founder David E. Smith, MD comments on 'R.I.C.E'

Dave Breithaupt, Internist and Addictive Disorder specialist, founded and directed a drug treatment center at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, California.  For eighteen years, he facilitated a weekly support group for recovering health professionals. 

Not addicted himself, he advocated for an improved State Diversion Program for addicted and mentally-ill physicians in California.

Now retired, instead of advocacy within organizations, Dave Breithaupt continues this effort by writing reality fiction. His first novel in the “Dr. Richard Drinkwater Series” is ‘R.I.C.E.’ released in April, 2009. A second book, ‘Thee Needs Killing, Marly’ will follow in 2010.

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EDUCATION
A.B., Stanford University    M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Internship, Residency Internal Medicine Santa Clara County Hospital
N.I.H. Fellowship, Metabolic Research Unit, UCSF
Certified Internal Medicine and Addictive Disorder Specialist,

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Assistant Clinical Professor, Stanford-Valley Medical Center
Addiction consultant, O’Connor Family Practice Residency

PRACTICE
Specialist, Internal Medicine, San Jose, Ca., O'Connor Hospital.
Sub-Specialty, Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases
Sub-specialty, Addiction Medicine
Founder,, H-PRN (Health Professionals Recovery Network)
Founder and Facilitator of weekly Barclay Group 1983 to 2003  (Recovering physicians and other health professionals)
Part-time coverage, Crestwood Psychiatric Hospital, San Jose, CA

O'CONNOR HOSPITAL ACTIVITIES
Chairman, Department of Medicine, two years
President, Medical Staff,
Executive Committee, five years
New Building Committee, Numerous Staff and Department Committees
Founder & Medical Director, O'Connor Hospital Alcohol and Drug  Treatment Facility 18 years

C.M.A. AND COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
Santa Clara County Medical Society, Physician Well Being Committee,
     Past Chairman member 1998 to 2007
California Medical Association, Alternate or  Delegate 5 years.
Surveyor of California Hospitals for C.M.A. and Joint Commission
C.M.A. Well-Being Committee, 1982-1989; Chairman, 1983-1989