David Arredondo, MD is the Medical Director of the OCDMH and founding director of SOLOMON, a pro bono consultation and technical assistance service. He conducts research reviews on a broad range of topics and provides consultations and training to professionals and programs across the country. His primary focus is the transferring of knowledge of early childhood brain development, the effects of trauma (developmental traumatology), and current thinking about children's mental health to practitioners in various disciplines in language that they can understand. His principal concerns include children with developmental circumstances that lead to less than optimal cognitive, emotional, and social development and the high numbers of youth with mental illness who are not receiving adequate screening, assessment, or mental health treatment. He is particularly concerned with the disproportionate impact of these circumstances on economically disadvantaged youth and their families. Dr Arredondo maintains a non-partisan stance while upholding the principle that an objective appraisal of circumstances requires multiple points of view.

Dr. Arredondo is the Medical Director of EMQ Children and Family Services, a large non profit agency in Northern California. He has special expertise in screening and assessing children for mental illness, program design, outcome studies, assessment of risk for recidivism in juvenile justice populations and community-based alternatives to incarceration. He has published and lectured extensively on the causes and treatment of behavioral disorders in young people and was featured on the PBS special, "Kids in Trouble". He is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences.

Dr. Arredondo is a former member of the clinical faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.