Dr. David A. Kessler MD
Pediatrics
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Pediatrics
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General Pediatrics
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Doctor Address
505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143
(415) 476-2342Education & 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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