Dr. David A. Kessler, MD | San Francisco, CA | Pediatrician | US News Doctors

Overview

Dr. David A. Kessler is a pediatrician in San Francisco, California. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

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Specialties

Specialty

Pediatrics

Pediatricians are primary care physicians (PCPs) for children, infants, and adolescents. They are trained to meet the unique needs of children, through all of their developmental stages, as they grow and mature.

Subspecialties

General Pediatrics

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Doctor Address

505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143

(415) 476-2342

Education & Experience

Medical School & Residency

Harvard Medical School

Medical School

Johns Hopkins University

Residency, Pediatrics, 1979-1982

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License

Active through 2025

CT State Medical License

Active through 2004

MD State Medical License

Active through 2024

NY State Medical License

Active through 1994

Awards, Honors & Recognitions

IOM Elected Member, 1993

Publications

The 2009 PEMpix photo competition award winner: David Kessler, MD, MSc: hey doc, what's this bump? A 3-month-old male infant with tender bony growths on his extremities.

Kessler, D.

Creating a safe workplace by universal testing of SARS-CoV-2 infection in asymptomatic patients and healthcare workers in the electrophysiology units: a multi-center experience

Sanghamitra Mohanty, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Chintan Trivedi, Bryan MacDonald, Angel Mayedo, Domenico G. Della Rocca, Donita Atkins, Peter J. Park, Alap Shah, Rakesh Gopinathannair, Amin Al-Ahmad, John Burkhardt, Gerald Gallinghouse, Mohamed Bassiouny, Luigi Di Biase, David A. Kessler, David Tschopp, Paul Coffeen, Rodney Horton, Robert Canby, Andrea Natale

Ordered hexagonal patterns via notch-delta signaling.

Eial Teomy, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Non-Normalizable Quasi-Equilibrium Solution of the Fokker-Planck Equation for Nonconfining Fields.

Celia Anteneodo, Lucianno Defaveri, Eli Barkai, David A Kessler

Saffman-Taylor fingers at intermediate noise.

Dan Shafir, David A. Kessler

Strengthening national nutrition research: rationale and options for a new coordinated federal research effort and authority.

Sheila Fleischhacker, Catherine E Woteki, Paul M. Coates, Van S. Hubbard, Grace E Flaherty, Daniel R Glickman, Thomas R Harkin, David A. Kessler, William W. Li, Joseph Loscalzo, Anand Parekh, Sylvia Rowe, Patrick J. Stover, Angie Tagtow, Anthony Joon Yun, Dariush Mozaffarian

Biological Networks Regulating Cell Fate Choice Are Minimally Frustrated

Shubham Tripathi, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Seven Former FDA Commissioners: The FDA Should Be An Independent Federal Agency.

Robert M. Califf, Margaret A. Hamburg, Jane E. Henney, David A. Kessler, Mark McClellan, Andrew C. von Eschenbach, Frank Young

From Non-Normalizable Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistics to Infinite-Ergodic Theory.

Erez Aghion, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Darwinian selection of host and bacteria supports emergence of Lamarckian-like adaptation of the system as a whole

Dino Osmanović, David A. Kessler, Yitzhak Rabin, Yoav Soen

Simulation of spatial systems with demographic noise.

Haim Weissmann, Nadav M. Shnerb, David A. Kessler

Front propagation and clustering in the stochastic nonlocal Fisher equation

Yehuda A. Ganan, David A. Kessler

Stability of two-species communities: Drift, environmental stochasticity, storage effect and selection.

Matan Danino, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

First Detected Arrival of a Quantum Walker on an Infinite Line.

Felix Thiel, Eli Barkai, David A. Kessler

Stochastic maps, continuous approximation, and stable distribution.

David A. Kessler, Stanislav Burov

Effects of thymic selection on T cell recognition of foreign and tumor antigenic peptides.

Jason T. George, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Alternative steady states in ecological networks.

Yael Fried, Nadav M. Shnerb, David A. Kessler

Three-dimensional to two-dimensional transition in mode-I fracture microbranching in a perturbed hexagonal close-packed lattice.

Shay I. Heizler, David A. Kessler

Large Fluctuations for Spatial Diffusion of Cold Atoms

Erez Aghion, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Quantum walks: The first detected passage time problem.

H. Friedman, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Mechanical bounds to transcriptional noise.

Stuart A. Sevier, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

The effect of environmental stochasticity on species richness in neutral communities.

Matan Danino, Nadav M. Shnerb, Sandro Azaele, William E. Kunin, David A. Kessler

Communities as cliques.

Yael Fried, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Script Concordance Testing to Determine Infant Lumbar Puncture Practice Variation.

Chime NO, Pusic MV, Auerbach M, Mehta R, Scherzer DJ, Van Ittersum W, McAninch B, Fein DM, Seelbach E, Zaveri P, Jackson JM, Kessler D, Chang TP

Heavy-tailed phase-space distributions beyond Boltzmann-Gibbs: Confined laser-cooled atoms in a nonthermal state.

Andreas Dechant, Shalom Tzvi Shafier, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Size distribution of ring polymers.

Shlomi Medalion, Erez Aghion, Hagai Meirovitch, Eli Barkai, David A Kessler

Theory of pinned fronts.

Haim Weissmann, Nadav M. Shnerb, David A. Kessler

Deviations from Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistics in Confined Optical Lattices.

Andreas Dechant, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Emergence of structured communities through evolutionary dynamics.

Elad Shtilerman, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Singularity screening in generic optical fields

Isaac Freund, David A. Kessler, Vasyl Vasyl’ev, Marat S. Soskin

Neutral dynamics with environmental noise: Age-size statistics and species lifetimes.

David A. Kessler, Samir Suweis, Marco Formentin, Nadav M. Shnerb

Microbranching in mode-I fracture using large-scale simulations of amorphous and perturbed-lattice models.

Shay I. Heizler, David A. Kessler

Fractional Edgeworth expansion: Corrections to the Gaussian-Lévy central-limit theorem

Netanel Hazut, Shlomi Medalion, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Generalized model of island biodiversity.

David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Scaling Solution in the Large Population Limit of the General Asymmetric Stochastic Luria–Delbrück Evolution Process

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Resistance to chemotherapy: patient variability and cellular heterogeneity.

David A. Kessler, Robert H. Austin, Herbert Levine

Toward More Comprehensive Food Labeling

David A. Kessler

The reward-based eating drive scale: a self-report index of reward-based eating.

Elissa S. Epel, A. Janet Tomiyama, Ashley E. Mason, Barbara A. Laraia, William R. Hartman, Karen Ready, Michael Acree, Tanja C. Adam, Sachiko T. St. Jeor, David A. Kessler

Temporal fluctuation scaling in populations and communities.

Michael Kalyuzhny, Yishai Schreiber, Rachel Chocron, Curtis H. Flather, Ronen Kadmon, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Neutral-like abundance distributions in the presence of selection in a continuous fitness landscape

David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Growth feedback as a basis for persister bistability

Jingchen Feng, David A. Kessler, Eshel Ben-Jacob, Herbert Levine

Cost-effectiveness of collaborative care for depression in UK primary care: economic evaluation of a randomised controlled trial (CADET).

Green C, Richards DA, Hill JJ, Gask L, Lovell K, Chew-Graham C, Bower P, Cape J, Pilling S, Araya R, Kessler D, Bland JM, Gilbody S, Lewis G, Manning C, Hughes-Morley A, Barkham M

Qualitative meta-synthesis of user experience of computerised therapy for depression and anxiety.

Knowles SE, Toms G, Sanders C, Bee P, Lovell K, Rennick-Egglestone S, Coyle D, Kennedy CM, Littlewood E, Kessler D, Gilbody S, Bower P

Microbranching in mode-I fracture in a randomly perturbed lattice.

Shay I. Heizler, David A. Kessler, Yonatan S Elbaz

Large population solution of the stochastic Luria–Delbrück evolution model

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Model for macroevolutionary dynamics

Yosef E. Maruvka, Nadav M. Shnerb, David A. Kessler, Robert E. Ricklefs

Coexistence in an inhomogeneous environment.

Shlomit Weisman, David A. Kessler

A tribute to C. Everett Koop

David A. Kessler, Jeffrey A. Nesbit, Timothy Mark Westmoreland, Mary Beth Albright

Mass dependence of instabilities of an oscillator with multiplicative and additive noise.

Moshe Gitterman, David A. Kessler

How input fluctuations reshape the dynamics of a biological switching system

Bo Hu, David A. Kessler, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Herbert Levine

You Name It – How Memory and Delay Govern First Name Dynamics

David A. Kessler, Yosef E. Maruvka, Jøergen Ouren, Nadav M. Shnerb

Theory of fractional Lévy kinetics for cold atoms diffusing in optical lattices.

David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Scaling theory for the quasideterministic limit of continuous bifurcations.

David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Superaging correlation function and ergodicity breaking for Brownian motion in logarithmic potentials

Andreas Dechant, Eric Lutz, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Universal dimer in a collisionally opaque medium: experimental observables and Efimov resonances.

Olga Machtey, David A. Kessler, Lev Khaykovich

Gas-phase detonation propagation in mixture composition gradients.

David A. Kessler, Vadim N. Gamezo, Elaine S. Oran

Noise effects in nonlinear biochemical signaling

Neda Bostani, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Herbert Levine

Fluctuations of Time Averages for Langevin Dynamics in a Binding Force Field

Andreas Dechant, Eric Lutz, David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

The Birth-Death-Mutation Process: A New Paradigm for Fat Tailed Distributions

Yosef E. Maruvka, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Effects of input noise on a simple biochemical switch.

Bo Hu, David A. Kessler, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Herbert Levine

Propagating mode-I fracture in amorphous materials using the continuous random network model.

Shay I. Heizler, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

An accelerated pathway for targeted cancer therapies.

Mark McClellan, Joshua S. Benner, Richard L. Schilsky, David Epstein, Ray Woosley, Stephen H. Friend, David Sidransky, Cindy Geoghegan, David A. Kessler

Repetitive pediatric simulation resuscitation training.

Marc Auerbach, David Kessler, Jessica C. Foltin

Effect of Spontaneous Twist on DNA Minicircles

Shlomi Medalion, David A. Kessler, Yitzhak Rabin

Infinite covariant density for diffusion in logarithmic potentials and optical lattices.

David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai

Optimal strategy for competence differentiation in bacteria.

C. Scott Wylie, Aaron D. Trout, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Transient localized patterns in noise-driven reaction-diffusion systems.

Inbal Hecht, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Globally coupled chaotic maps and demographic stochasticity.

David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Universal features of surname distribution in a subsample of a growing population

Yosef E. Maruvka, Nadav M. Shnerb, David A. Kessler

Fluctuations and dispersal rates in population dynamics

David A. Kessler, Leonard M. Sander

The fixation probability of rare mutators in finite asexual populations.

C. Scott Wylie, Cheol-Min Ghim, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Singularities in speckled speckle: screening

David A. Kessler, Isaac Freund

Experimental measurements of topological singularity screening in random paraxial scalar and vector optical fields.

Roman I. Egorov, Marat S. Soskin, David A. Kessler, Isaac Freund

Singularities in speckled speckle.

Isaac Freund, David A Kessler

Deconstructing the vanilla milkshake: the dominant effect of sucrose on self-administration of nutrient-flavor mixtures.

Amy M. Naleid, Jeffrey W. Grimm, David A. Kessler, Alfred J. Sipols, Sepideh Aliakbari, Jennifer L. Bennett, Jason Wells, Dianne P. Figlewicz

Solution of an infection model near threshold.

David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Is It Too Late to Manage the Risks?

David A. Kessler, Douglas A. Levy

FDA Regulation of Stem-Cell–Based Therapies

Dina Gould Halme, David A. Kessler

Fluctuation-induced instabilities in front propagation up a comoving reaction gradient in two dimensions.

C. Scott Wylie, Herbert Levine, David A. Kessler

Directional sensing in eukaryotic chemotaxis: A balanced inactivation model

Herbert Levine, David A. Kessler, Wouter-Jan Rappel

Equation-free dynamic renormalization of a Kardar-Parisi-Zhang-type equation.

David A. Kessler, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Ligang Chen

Analytic approach to the evolutionary effects of genetic exchange

Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Front propagation up a reaction rate gradient.

Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Alcohol marketing and youth: the challenge for public health.

David A. Kessler

Equilibrium state of molecular breeding

Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler

Fluctuation-regularized front propagation dynamics in reaction-diffusion systems.

Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Recombination dramatically speeds up evolution of finite populations.

Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Crack-microcrack interactions in dynamical fracture.

Eran Bouchbinder, David A. Kessler, Itamar Procaccia

Mesenchymoma: an unusual tumour of the lip.

David A. Kessler, Deepak Kademani, Roy S. Feldman, Paul Howlett

Distribution functions for filaments under tension.

David A. Kessler, Yitzhak Rabin

Analytical study of the effect of recombination on evolution via DNA shuffling.

Weiqun Peng, Herbert Levine, Terence Hwa, David A. Kessler

Does the continuum theory of dynamic fracture work

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Stretching instability of helical springs.

David A. Kessler, Yitzhak Rabin

Mode-I fracture in a nonlinear lattice with viscoelastic forces.

Shay I. Heizler, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Comment on "Solidification of a supercooled liquid in a narrow channel".

Efim A. Brener, David A. Kessler

Frenet algorithm for simulations of fluctuating continuous elastic filaments.

Yevgeny Kats, David A. Kessler, Yitzhak Rabin

Surface physics: A new crack at friction

David A. Kessler

Beyond the tobacco settlement.

David A. Kessler, Matthew L. Myers

Phase-field model of mode III dynamic fracture

Alain Karma, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Microscopic Selection of Fluid Fingering Patterns

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Nonlinear lattice model of viscoelastic mode III fracture.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

How does a β-hairpin fold/unfold? Competition between topology and heterogeneity in a solvable model

Chin-Lin Guo, Herbert Levine, David A. Kessler

Cancer and herbs.

David A. Kessler

Crystal structure of the cystine C-S lyase from Synechocystis: stabilization of cysteine persulfide for FeS cluster biosynthesis.

Clausen T, Kaiser JT, Steegborn C, Huber R, Kessler D

Two state behavior in a solvable model of beta-hairpin folding.

Chin-Lin Guo, Herbert Levine, David A. Kessler

Arrested cracks in nonlinear lattice models of brittle fracture.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Steady-state cracks in viscoelastic lattice models.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

The Food and Drug Administration's Rule on Tobacco: Blending Science and Law

David A. Kessler, Judith P. Wilkenfeld, Larry J. Thompson

Nicotine addiction: a pediatric disease.

David A. Kessler, Sharon L. Natanblut, Judith P. Wilkenfeld, Catherine C. Lorraine, Sharon Lindan Mayl, Ilisa B. G. Bernstein, Larry J. Thompson

Approval of New Drugs in the United States: Comparison With the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan

David A. Kessler, Arthur E. Hass, Karyn L. Feiden, Murray Lumpkin, Robert Temple

MEANDERING INSTABILITY OF A SPIRAL INTERFACE IN THE FREE BOUNDARY LIMIT

Igor Mitkov, Igor S. Aranson, David A. Kessler

The Food and Drug Administration's regulation of tobacco products.

David A. Kessler, Ann M. Witt, Philip S. Barnett, Mitchell Zeller, Sharon L. Natanblut, Judith P. Wilkenfeld, Catherine C. Lorraine, Larry J. Thompson, William B. Schultz

RNA virus evolution via a fitness-space model.

Lev S. Tsimring, Herbert Levine, David A. Kessler

Interaction of spiral waves with external fields in excitable media

Igor Mitkov, Igor S. Aranson, David A. Kessler

Analytical study of time series generation by feed-forward networks.

Ido Kanter, David A. Kessler, Avner Priel, Eric L. Eisenstein

Nicotine Addiction in Young People

David A. Kessler

Markov processes: Linguistics and Zipf's law.

Ido Kanter, David A. Kessler

Faster evaluation of vital drugs.

David A. Kessler, Karyn L. Feiden

Generation and prediction of time series by a neural network

Eric L. Eisenstein, Ido Kanter, David A. Kessler, W. Kinzel

The Evolution of National Nutrition Policy

David A. Kessler

Tilted arrays of dendrites

Raz Kupferman, David A. Kessler

Therapeutic-Class Wars -- Drug Promotion in a Competitive Marketplace

David A. Kessler, Janet L. Rose, Robert Temple, Renie Schapiro, Joseph P. Griffin

Interpolating between ferromagnets and spin glasses.

Eric L. Eisenstein, Ido Kanter, David A. Kessler

Hastings lecture, December 10, 1993, Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A.

David A. Kessler

Boundary-induced drift of spirals in excitable media.

Igor S. Aranson, David A. Kessler, Igor Mitkov

Introducing MEDWatch. A new approach to reporting medication and device adverse effects and product problems.

David A. Kessler

Introducing MEDWatch. A new approach to reporting medication and device adverse effects and product problems.

David A. Kessler

Pattern formation in Dictyostelium via the dynamics of cooperative biological entities.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

A Call for Higher Standards for Breast Implants

David A. Kessler, Ruth B. Merkatz, Renie Schapiro

MedWatch: FDA's new medical products reporting program.

David A. Kessler, Dianne L. Kennedy

Regulation of Somatic-Cell Therapy and Gene Therapy by the Food and Drug Administration

David A. Kessler, Jay P. Siegel, Philip D. Noguchi, Kathryn C. Zoon, Karyn L. Feiden, Janet Woodcock

Women in clinical trials of new drugs : a change in food and drug administration policy

Merkatz Rb, Robert Temple, Subel S, Karyn L. Feiden, David A. Kessler

Introducing MEDWatch: A New Approach to Reporting Medication and Device Adverse Effects and Product Problems

David A. Kessler

Foodborne Illness in the 1990s

Douglas E. Archer, David A. Kessler

Interaction between a drifting spiral and defects

Xiaoqin Zou, Herbert Levine, David A. Kessler

Spiral-core meandering in excitable media.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine, William N. Reynolds

Molecular-beam epitaxial growth and surface diffusion.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine, Leonard M. Sander

The safety of foods developed by biotechnology

David A. Kessler, Michael R. Taylor, James H. Maryanski, Eric L. Flamm, Linda S. Kahl

The basis of the FDA's decision on breast implants.

David A. Kessler

Yan et al. Reply.

Hong Yan, David A. Kessler, Leonard M. Sander

Spiral core in singly diffusive excitable media.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine, William N. Reynolds

Communicating with Patients about Their Medications

David A. Kessler

Maximal dendrite size in monolayer systems.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Drug Promotion and Scientific Exchange

David A. Kessler

Effect of strain on surface morphology in highly strained InGaAs films.

C. W. Snyder, Bradford G. Orr, David A. Kessler, Leonard M. Sander

Interface fluctuations in random media.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine, Yuhai Tu

Coupled-map lattice model for crystal growth.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine, William N. Reynolds

Comment on "Phase transition in a restricted solid-on-solid surface-growth model in 2+1 dimensions"

Hong Yan, David A. Kessler

Stability of traveling waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Photoexcited quantum wells: Nonlinear screening, bistability, and negative differential capacitance.

Roberto Merlin, David A. Kessler

Low-density quantum plasmas: Semiclassical screening oscillations.

David A. Kessler, Roberto Merlin

Linear stability of directional solidification cells.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Unbridled growth of spin-glass clusters.

David A. Kessler, Michael Bretz

Roughening phase transition in surface growth.

Hong Yan, David A. Kessler, Leonard M. Sander

Velocity selection for Taylor bubbles.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Steady-state cellular growth during directional solidification.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Cellular solutions for highly nonequilibrium directional solidification

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Dynamical scaling of the surface of finite-density ballistic aggregation

R. Baiod, David A. Kessler, Pradipkumar Ramanlal, Leonard M. Sander, Robert Savit

Stability of the dense radial morphology in diffusive pattern formation.

David G. Grier, David A. Kessler, Leonard M. Sander

Growth velocity of three-dimensional dendritic crystals.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

The Federal Regulation of Medical Devices

David A. Kessler, Stuart M. Pape, David N. Sundwall

Stability of dendritic crystals.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Dendritic growth in a channel.

David A. Kessler, Joel Koplik, Herbert Levine

Sidebranching of the Saffman-Taylor finger

G. Li, David A. Kessler, Leonard M. Sander

Velocity selection in dendritic growth

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Coalescence of Saffman-Taylor fingers: A new global instability.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Steady-state dendritic crystal growth.

David A. Kessler, Joel Koplik, Herbert Levine

Theory of the Saffman-Taylor "finger" pattern. I.

Kessler, Levine

Theory of the Saffman-Taylor "finger" pattern. II.

Kessler, Levine

Stability of finger patterns in Hele-Shaw cells.

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

Geometrical models of interface evolution. III. Theory of dendritic growth

David A. Kessler, Joel Koplik, Herbert Levine

Mast cells and tumor angiogenesis.

David A. Kessler, Robert Langer, Naomi A. Pless, Judah Folkman

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