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Department of Family & Community Medicine
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Shelley R. Adler, PhD
Associate Professor in Residence
 

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Position(s)
  • Director, Osher Center Qualitative Methods Core
  • Director, Area of Concentration in the Social Sciences in

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

Areas of Interest
  • 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
Publications
  • 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, Fosket J, Kagawa-Singer M, McGraw SA, Wong-Kim E, Gold E, Sternfeld B. Conceptualizing Menopause and Midlife: Chinese American and Chinese Women in the U.S. Maturitas. Issue: 1. 35(1):17-29, 2000.
  • 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.
Contact Information
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Box 1726
1701 Divisadero Street, Suite 150
San Francisco, CA 94143-1726

ph 415-353-7709
fx 415-353-9746

adlersh@ocim.ucsf.edu


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