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Dr. Drew Pinsky expands smallscreen empire with HLN Prime Time

By April MacIntyre Nov 29, 2010, 17:23 GMT

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Dr. Drew Pinsky will be joining HLN’s prime time programming block.

Announced by Scot Safon, executive vice president in charge of HLN, the new program will launch in Spring 2011 and will be a platform for Dr. Drew’s insights on a broad range of subjects every night.

Dr. Drew, a practicing physician who is also board certified in internal and addiction medicine, has spent years on the radio and televsion fielding questions and dealing hands on with addicted celebrities. He helps find constructive ways to navigate common struggles facing parents and their children alike.

The HLN program will give Dr. Drew a new, nightly platform to provide relevant observations and perspectives on the news stories and newsmakers HLN covers throughout the day.

“Dr. Drew informs and inspires audiences on subjects that matter most to them and their families, and he is an ideal fit for the HLN network,” said Safon. “Whether the topics are in the news or simply in the daily lives of our audience, Dr. Drew will shed light, provide crucial information and give viewers something to talk—and think–about.”

“I am thrilled to join HLN and I have no doubt that the natural fit I feel at the network will provide the opportunity to explore the stories behind the story and really explain the choices that people make,” said Pinsky.

Dr. Drew Pinsky is a practicing physician with a Private Practice and is on staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital. He is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck USC School of Medicine.

Dr. Drew and Vh1 are heading into their fourth season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, and Sober House which chronicles the sober living process and Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew looked at the struggles and treatment of those dealing with serious sex addictions.

Dr. Drew is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mirror Effect:  How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper-Collins) and Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper-Collins).  Dr. Drew co-authored with Dr. Mark Young the first academic study on celebrities and narcissism.  The study was published in the Journal of Research in Personality (Elsevier) and received worldwide press coverage.

Dr. Drew is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the California Medical Association and the American Society of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Drew lives with his wife and their teenage triplets in Pasadena. HLN is a CNN Worldwide network.