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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
SHELLEY R. ADLER, PHD

Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

CONTACT

adlersh@ocim.ucsf.edu
(415) 353-7709 (voice)
(415) 353-9746 (fax)

Box 1726, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1726

EDUCATION

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/Ethnomedicine
University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1992-1995, Gerontology/Medical Anthropology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992-1995

National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociocultural Gerontology, Medical Anthropology Program, University of California, San Francisco

1995-1998

Assistant Research Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology Program, 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

2002-2006

Associate Adjunct Professor/Associate Professor in Residence Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

2006-present

Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

HONORS & AWARDS

2005

The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, member

2005

Award for Outstanding Breast Cancer Research in Underserved Populations (Faith Fancher Award) California Breast Cancer Research Program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Adler SR. 1991. Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome among Hmong Immigrants: Examining the Role of the Nightmare. Journal of American Folklore. 411:54-71.

Adler SR. 1994. Ethnomedical Pathogenesis and Hmong Immigrants' Sudden Nocturnal Deaths. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 18(1):23-59.

Adler SR. 1995. Terror in Transition: Hmong Folk Belief in America. In Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural, ed. Walker B, pp.180-202. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.

Adler SR. 1995. Refugee Stress and Folk Belief. Social Science and Medicine. 40(12):1623-1629.

Adler SR, McGraw SA, McKinlay JB. 1998. Patient Assertiveness in Ethnically Diverse Older Women with Breast Cancer: Challenging Stereotypes of the Elderly. Journal of Aging Studies 12(4):331-350.

Adler SR and Fosket JR. 1999. Disclosing Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in the Medical Encounter: A Qualitative Study in Women with Breast Cancer. The Journal of Family Practice 48(6):453-458.

Adler SR. 1999. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Women with Breast Cancer. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(2):214-222.

Adler SR and Showen NS. 1999. Pediatric Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use: Physician-Patient Communication. Western Journal of Medicine 171:157-158.

Lee MM, Lin SS, Wrensch MR, Adler SR, Eisenberg D. 2000. Alternative Therapies Used by Women with Breast Cancer in Four Ethnic Populations. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 92(1):42-47.

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.

Kagawa-Singer M, Kim S, Wu K, Adler S, Kawanishi Y, Wongvipat N, Greendale G. 2002. Comparison of the Menopause and Midlife Transition between Japanese American and Euro-American Women. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(1).

Bair YA, Gold EB, Greendale GA, Sternfeld B, Adler SR, Azari R, Harkey M. 2002. Ethnic Differences in Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Midlife: Longitudinal Results from SWAN Participants. American Journal of Public Health 92(11):1832-40.

Adler SR. 2002. Integrative Medicine and Culture: Toward an Anthropology of CAM. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16 (4):398-412.

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.

Adler SR, Hughes EF, Scott R. 2006. The Student "Mole": Revealing the Hidden Curriculum. Medical Education.

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