Dr. William D. Stanley received his Doctorate of Medicine degree from UMDNJ – Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, NJ. He did his residency training at Albert Einstein Medical
Center in Philadelphia, PA. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Morgan State University
in Baltimore, Md. He did 1 year of a Master’s program in Anatomy at the University of Maryland
Baltimore City campus prior to matriculating to medical school that next year.
Dr Stanley has worked in Internal Medicine for the majority of his professional life, both in the
inpatient and outpatient units. He started at Parkside Medical Assoc, PA in Trenton, NJ, employing 4
physicians. Early on, he became aware of his keen interest in substance abuse and became involved
with ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) in 1998. He completed his Boards in ASAM in
2000 and, later, by ABAM (American Board of Addiction Medicine) in 2010. Since 2013 he has
concentrated his time exclusively to the treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders. Prior to his
joining Dr. Benya and her team in California, he was Medical Director of both an inpatient detox
unit and 2 outpatient treatment programs, all located in New Jersey. He has an active license to
practice medicine in both New Jersey and California.
