Dr. David Aversa is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and completed his residency in general psychiatry at Yale Department of Psychiatry and went on to do a fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and then another fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at the Yale Department of Law & Psychiatry.
Prior to medical school, he completed a BA in Biology at Brown University and a Masters in Public Health in health care administration at Boston University School in Public Health. After training, Dr. Aversa worked at both the Yale Child Study Center and Yale Adult Psychiatry Department as an inpatient attending, medical director of the Yale Child Study Center outpatient clinic, medical director of Yale IICAPS, and helped develop and served as the first medical director of the York Street Clinic through the in-home services at the Yale Child Study Center.
While at Yale, Dr. Aversa started Connecticut Psychiatric & Wellness Center, a multidisciplinary private practice that treats adults, children, and families, and provides therapy, medication management, school consultation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and KAP. This practice also works with Quinnipiac University to provide psychiatric services to the University.
He was the first-ever university psychiatrist for Quinnipiac. Dr. Aversa is also co-founder of Charter Oak Forensics Consultants, which performs psychiatric forensic evaluations for courts, schools, service agencies, and private citizens. Although working with Medicaid and Medicare mental health system in Connecticut, Dr. Aversa also serves as the medical director of Access.