With long experience as a psychiatrist, David Chen, MD, runs a Chevy Chase, Maryland-based private practice, established in 2009. Throughout his career, David Chen, MD, has worked with children and families, not only in Chevy Chase but throughout the Washington DC metropolitan area. He is board-certified as both a general psychiatrist and in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Dr. Chen is affiliated with the George Washington University Department of Psychiatry, where he is clinical supervisor. He also serves as adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics at the university’s medical school and is a member of the faculty at the Children’s National Medical Center. At the latter, he won the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.

Throughout his career, Dr. David Chen has drawn on a strong academic foundation. After earning his medical degree from the University of Rochester, he completed a residency at Sheppard Pratt Behavioral Health Systems/ University of Maryland Medical Center. He subsequently pursued a fellowship in child psychiatry at Children's National Medical Center/George Washington University and also completed a clinical research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.