Michael has devoted much of his life to helping parents raise healthy children. A pediatrician and child psychiatrist, Michael has been busy helping children and their parents manage a myriad of both medical and psychological challenges.

Education
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Michael majored in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
He did his medical studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales. After a year of residency in psychiatry at Harvard University School of Medicine, he went on to complete a residency in pediatrics at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA.

Experience & Specialties
After his initial experience of private practice in pediatrics in Northboro, MA, he went on to work as a pediatrician for the Ross Valley Medical Group in Greenbrae, CA. He also served as a consultant to Werner
Erhard and Associates in San Francisco.
In 1995 Michael decided to return to psychiatry and started his formal psychiatric training. His studies took him to several training facilities including Napa State Hospital, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California San Francisco, and California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco).
He then went on to open a private practice in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry in 1999 with offices in San Francisco and Kentfield.

Hobies
Throughout the years, Michael has maintained a significant commitment to physical fitness.
Since 1990 he has completed eleven full Ironman triathlons (three times in Hawaii) and more than 100 marathons. Michael also finds time to pursue numerous hobbies such as music (playing guitar since 1967, mostly blues, ragtime, and folk). He was even lead singer of a rock band in Scotland in 1973.
He also enjoys bicycling, swimming, hiking, photography, racing sports cars, skiing, sail-boarding, and travel.
He has traveled extensively throughout Europe and has visited Bali, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Morocco, Israel, Peru, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1998, he spent two weeks in Peru with a group of runners, where he ran the 28 mile Inca Trail to Macchu Piccu in one (very tiring) day.

I have been seeing Dr. Saal for about a year and he has been nothing short of professional, caring, and completely competent and organized..
~bk