Shelley R. Adler, PhD

University of California at Berkeley, A.B., 1981-1985, English
University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., 1985-1987, Folklore
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Graduate Fellow, 1987-1988, Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1988-1991, Folklore
University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1992-1995, Sociocultural Gerontology

• 1992-95
  National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociocultural Gerontology, Medical Anthropology Program, University of California, San Francisco
• 1995-98
  Assistant Research Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
• 1998-2002
  Assistant Adjunct Professor, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2002-06
  Associate Adjunct Professor/Associate Professor in Residence, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2006-09
  Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2006-present
  Director, Qualitative Methods Core, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2008-2010
  Co-Director, Pathway to Discovery in Health and Society, University of California, San Francisco
• 2008-present
  Director of Educational Programs at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Osher Foundation Endowed Chair in Educational Programs in Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2009-present
  Professor in Residence, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

• 2005
  The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, member
• 2005
  Award for Outstanding Breast Cancer Research Proposal in Underserved Populations (Faith Fancher Award) - California Breast Cancer Research Program
• 2006
  UCSF/Coro Faculty Leadership Collaborative
• 2008
  UCSF Champion of Diversity

• Adler SR. 1999. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Women with Breast Cancer. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(2):214-222. PMID: 10440030
• Adler SR, Fosket J, Kagawa-Singer M, McGraw SA, Wong-Kim E, Gold E, Sternfeld B. 2000. Conceptualizing Menopause and Midlife: Chinese American and Chinese Women in the U.S. Maturitas 35(1):17-29.
• Adler SR. 2001. Integrating Personal Health Belief Systems: Patient-Practitioner Communication. In Healing Logics, ed. Brady E. Logan, pp.115-128. Utah: Utah State University Press.
• Adler SR. 2002. Integrative Medicine and Culture: Toward an Anthropology of CAM. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16 (4):398-412. PMID: 12500614
• Adler SR. 2003. Relationships among Older Patients, CAM Practitioners, and Physicians: The Advantages of Qualitative Inquiry. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 9(1):104-110. PMID: 12622050
• Gold EB, Bair Y, Zhang G, Utts J, Greendale GA, Upchurch D, Chyu L, Sternfeld B, Adler S. 2007. Cross-sectional Analysis of Specific Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Use by Racial/ethnic Group and Menopausal Status: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN). Menopause 14(4)612-623. PMID: 17327812
• Bair YA, Gold EB, Zhang G, Rasor N, Utts J, Upchurch DM, Chyu L, Greendale GA, Sternfeld B, Adler SR. 2008. The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine during the Menopause Transition: Longitudinal Results from the Study of Women's Health across the Nation. Menopause 15(1):32-43. PMID: 18090037
• Adler SR, Wrubel J, Hughes EF, Beinfield HS. 2009. Aging and Self-managed Health Care: Older Breast Cancer Patients' Interactions with Physicians and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners. Integrative Cancer Therapies 8(1):63-70. PMID: 19147647
• Kagawa-Singer M, Adler SR, Mouton CP, Ory M, Underwood LG. 2009. Use of Focus Groups in Multi-Site, Multi-Ethnic Research Projects for Women’s Health: A SWAN Example. Ethnicity and Disease 19:352-358. PMID: 19769020
• Dzul-Church V, Cimino JW, Adler SR, Wong P, Anderson WG. 2010. “I’m sitting here by myself...”: Experiences of Serious Illness in Patients at an Urban Public Hospital. Journal of Palliative Medicine 13(6):695-701.
• Hancock CM, Steinbach A, Nesbitt TS, Adler SR, Auerswald CL. 2009. Why Doctors Choose Small Towns: A Developmental Model of Rural Physician Recruitment and Retention. Social Science in Medicine 69:1368-1376.
• Saba G, Satterfield J, Salazar R, Adler SR, Hauer K, Chen H, Hughes D, Azzam A, Shore W. The SBS Toolbox: Clinical Pearls from the Social and Behavioral Sciences. MedEdPORTAL: http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=7980, 02/2010.
• Green EP, Borkan JM, Pross SH, Adler SR, Nothnagle M, Parsonnet J, Gruppuso PA. 2010. Encouraging Scholarship: Medical School Programs to Promote Student Inquiry beyond the Traditional Medical Curriculum. Academic Medicine 85(3):409-418.
• Satterfield J, Adler SR, Chen CH, Salazar R, Saba G. 2010. Creating an Ideal Social and Behavioral Science Curriculum for Medical Students. Medical Education 44(12):1194-202.
• Adler SR. 2011. Sleep Paralysis: Night-Mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection. Series in Medical Anthropology. Newark, New Jersey, and London, England: Rutgers University Press.