Shelley R. Adler, PhDProfessor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
Dr. Shelley Adler, Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, was trained in medical anthropology and sociocultural gerontology. She is the Director of Educational Programs at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Adler’s research focuses on the areas of integrative medicine and ethnomedicine, specifically patient-physician communication, and, most recently, quality of life at end of life for underserved women. She conducts qualitative, ethnographic, and mixed-method research and is the Director of the Osher Center Qualitative Methods Core. In 2005, Dr. Adler (together with Beverly Burns) received the Faith Fancher Research Award from the California Breast Cancer Research Program for work that exemplifies the commitment to breast cancer education, services, and care for underserved populations. Dr. Adler is currently conducting research that includes a study of health-care relationships among patients, physicians, and CAM practitioners (NIH); three studies of end-of-life experiences among underserved and ethnic minority women with advanced cancer (NIH, Susan G. Komen for the Cure; California Breast Cancer Research Program); and a book on cross-cultural approaches to sleep disorders and the nocebo phenomenon (NIH; forthcoming 2009, Rutgers University Press).
Whether students choose a career in clinical care, research, or medical education, training in integrative and cross-cultural medicine prepares them not just to practice medicine with diverse populations, but to shape health care, the way health care is delivered, and what it means to be well.-Shelley Adler | ||
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Dr. Adler is active in health professional education and doctoral student teaching, including co-directing the Pathway to Discovery in Health & Society, serving as course co-director for the cancer block in the medical school curriculum, and teaching medical student and resident integrative medicine electives. She is particularly interested in the roles of integrative medicine and the social sciences in medical education: she is Co-PI of an NIH grant to integrate the social and behavioral sciences (including complementary and alternative medicine) into medical education, is a member of the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, and is chair of the Academy’s curricular innovations funding committee. Publications List > review
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