Newport Beach resident receives Vanguard honor

A Newport Beach resident has been honored with the “2002 Outstanding

Young Professional Award” by Vanguard University’s Alumni Assn.

Daniel Amen graduated from Southern California College, now Vanguard

University, with a degree in biology in 1978. After graduation, Amen

enlisted in the Army and was stationed in West Germany for three years.

He also served as an Army physician and achieved the rank of Major.

Currently, Amen practices in child/adolescent/adult behavioral

medicine and nuclear brain imaging at the Amen Clinics in Fairfield and

Newport Beach.

He is also the author of 18 books, the most recent being the

top-selling “Healing ADD.”