Geoffrey Willis

name David F. Velkoff, M.D., our Medical Director and co-founder, supervises all evaluation procedures and treatment programs. Dr. Velkoff earned his Masters degree in Psychology from the California State University at Los Angeles in 1975, and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta in 1976. Dr. Velkoff completed his postgraduate work on Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California Medical Center at Irvine. He then shifted his specialty to Behavioral Medicine and underwent training at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas to learn biofeedback technology. In 1980, he co-founded the Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine.

Seeking to better understand the link between illness and the mind, Dr. Velkoff served as the clinical director of an international research study on psychoneuroimmunology with the UCLA Medical School Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Dr. Velkoff was a founding associate editor of the scientific publication, Journal of Neurotherapy.

Health-and-Fitness

NON-MEDICAL Treatment Choices FOR ADHD

11th September 2010
NON-MEDICAL Treatment for ADHDBeing provided a prognosis of ADHD can sometimes deliver a sigh of relief for some parents. But now what? Do you doom your child to walking through the days like a zombie, drugged up by some healthcare prescription?Although a... Read >
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Clinical Discovery in Advances in the Treatment for Autism

10th September 2010
Medicine and the neurosciences have come a long way in further understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders from the days when Autism Spectrum Disorders was viewed as a form of childhood schizophrenia, or mistakenly seen as due to inadequate parenting. Neuroim... Read >