David Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show’s inception in 1984 until its end in 2016.

Drew Pinsky’s parents: Meet Helene Stanton & Morton Pinsky

The media personality was born to a Jewish family. His father, Morton Pinsky (1925–2009), was a physician whose parents emigrated from Ukraine. His mother, Helene Stanton (née Eleanor Mae Stansbury; 1925–2017), was a singer and actress who came from a “highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia”.

Pinsky’s father, Morton, died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 27, 2009. A title card at the end of the season 3 finale of Celebrity Rehab dedicated the episode to him. Pinsky’s mother, Helene, died on June 7, 2017, at age 91.

After graduating from Polytechnic School in 1976, Pinsky studied biology at Amherst College, graduating in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science.

He then attended the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, graduating in 1984 with a Doctor of Medicine degree.