• Director of Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
• Director, Area of Concentration in the Social Sciences in
• Co-Director, Pathway to Discovery in Health & Society

• AB, University of California, Berkeley
• MA, University of California, Los Angeles
• PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
• Postdoctoral Fellows, University of California, San Francisco

• ethnomedicine, integrative medicine, placebo/nocebo phenomena
• ethnic and underrepresented minority experiences in women's health (breast cancer, menopause), patient-physician communication, and quality of life at end of life
• qualitative methodology, mixed-method (qualitative-quantitative) research
• the role of the social sciences in medical education

• Adler SR. Refugee Stress and Folk Belief. Social Science and Medicine. Issue: 12. 40:1623-1629, 1995
• Adler SR. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Women with Breast Cancer. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Issue: 2. 13:214-222, 1999.
• Adler SR and Fosket J. Disclosing Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in the Medical Encounter: A Qualitative Study in Women with Breast Cancer. The Journal of Family Practice. Issue: 6. 48(6):453-458, 1999.
• Adler SR. Relationships among Older Patients, CAM Practitioners, and Physicians: The Advantages of Qualitative Inquiry. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. Issue: 1. 9:104-110, 2003.
• Mahoney MR, Wilson E, Odom KL, Flowers L, Adler SR. 2008. Minority Faculty Voices on Diversity in Academic Medicine: Perspectives from One School. Academic Medicine. 83(8):781-6.

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