David Galarneau, MD is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine and has been at Ochsner Health since July 2006. He is the Vice Chair and Director of Research of the Department of Psychiatry, as well as the Medical Director of Quality for the Behavioral Health Service Line. He is also the Director of the Undergraduate Medical Education Program in Psychiatry and the Head of the Edgar Burns Society at the Ochsner Clinical School. On the clinical side, he is the Medical Director of the Ochsner Recovery Program and the Addiction Psychiatry Consultation Service. Additionally, he is a certified evaluator for the ADHD Therapeutic Use Exemptions Program of the National Football League.
Dr. Galarneau completed his residency training in psychiatry at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Payne Whitney Clinic, where he served as chief resident. He completed medical school at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and received a BS in biology and BA in philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he finished with the highest academic record in his class.
Dr. Galarneau is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a distinguished fellow of the Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association, and a fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He serves on two national committees: the Council on Quality Care of the American Psychiatric Association and the NIDA Young Investigator Travel Award Subcommittee of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Dr. Galarneau currently resides in New Orleans with his wife Ashley and children Finn (18), Daniel (7), and Mary Frances (4). Finn will be headed to the University of Chicago in the fall.