Shelley Adler, PhD
Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017

Interests

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• Sociocultural gerontology
• Palliative care
• Medical education
• End of life
• Interprofessional education
• Sleep paralysis
• Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
• Integrative medicine
• Healthcare for underserved communities
• Medical anthropology

Grants and Projects

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• Summer Institute on Integrative Health Equity and Applied Research (IHEAR), NIH, 2020-2025
• Training Researchers in Clinical Integrative Medicine (TRIM), NIH, 2007-2022
• A Model Interprofessional Curriculum in Integrative Medicine, NIH, 2010-2016
• End of Life Decision Making, Communication and Meaning, NIH, 2007-2010
• The "Night-Mare" in Culture, History, and Biomedicine, NIH, 2005-2007
• Older Patient-physician-alternative Healer Relationships, NIH, 2001-2007
• Womens Cancer Treatment Choices by Cohort and Ethnicity, NIH, 1995-2001

Publications (43)

Top publication keywords:
Physician-Patient RelationsPalliative CarePalliative MedicineInterprofessional RelationsCultural DiversityTerminal CareMenopauseFaculty, MedicalCurriculumStaff DevelopmentHot FlashesComplementary TherapiesIntegrative MedicineMedicine, AyurvedicPatient Simulation

• Integrative Health Equity: Definition, Principles, Strategies, and Reflections.
  Global advances in integrative medicine and health 2024 Chao MT, Adler SR
• The Reliability of Rating via Audio-Recording Using the Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching Assessment Criteria.
  Global advances in integrative medicine and health 2023 Floyd E, Adler SR, Crane RS, Brewer J, Moran P, Richler R, Hartogensis W, Kuyken W, Hecht FM
• Preventing Depression Relapse: A Qualitative Study on the Need for Additional Structured Support Following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
  Global advances in integrative medicine and health 2023 Siwik CJ, Adler SR, Moran PJ, Kuyken W, Segal Z, Felder J, Eisendrath S, Hecht FM
• What Do Placebo and Nocebo Effects Have to Do With Health Equity? The Hidden Toll of Nocebo Effects on Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients in Clinical Care.
  Frontiers in psychology 2021 Yetman HE, Cox N, Adler SR, Hall KT, Stone VE
• A 4-Month Whole-Systems Ayurvedic Medicine Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention Is Feasible and Acceptable for Breast Cancer Survivors: Results of a Single-Arm Pilot Clinical Trial.
  Global advances in health and medicine 2020 Dhruva A, Wu C, Miaskowski C, Hartogensis W, Rugo HS, Adler SR, Kaptchuk TJ, Kelkar R, Agarawal S, Vadodaria A, Garris E, Hecht FM

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• Experiences of Advanced Breast Cancer Among Latina Immigrants: A Qualitative Pilot Study.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2020 Glaser J, Coulter YZ, Thompson-Lastad A, Castro-Smyth L, Serrano E, Adler SR
• Integrative Palliative Care: A New Transformative Field to Alleviate Suffering.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Chiaramonte DR, Adler SR
• Students' response to a Massage & Meditation medical school course elective.
  MedEdPublish (2016) 2020 Binstock M, Morinis L, Adler S, Mehling WE
• Call for Special Focus Issue Papers: Integrative Palliative Care.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Adler S, Chiaramonte D
• End-of-Life Concerns and Experiences of Living With Advanced Breast Cancer Among Medically Underserved Women.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2019 Adler SR, Coulter YZ, Stone K, Glaser J, Duerr M, Enochty S
• Vulnerable Patients' Psychosocial Experiences in a Group-Based, Integrative Pain Management Program.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Bruns EB, Befus D, Wismer B, Knight K, Adler SR, Leonoudakis-Watts K, Thompson-Lastad A, Chao MT
• Integrative Palliative Care: Enhancing the Natural Synergy Between Integrative Health and Palliative Medicine.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Adler SR, Marchand LR, Heap N
• Implementing an Inpatient Acupuncture Service for Pain and Symptom Management: Identifying Opportunities and Challenges.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Harrison JD, Reddy S, Liu R, Adler SR, Chao MT
• Integrative Health: An Interprofessional Standardized Patient Case for Prelicensure Learners.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2018 Rivera J, de Lisser R, Dhruva A, Fitzsimmons A, Hyde S, Reddy S, Tsourounis C, Adler SR
• Integrative Medicine and the Imperative for Health Justice.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2018 Chao MT, Adler SR
• The impact of intramural grants on educators' careers and on medical education innovation.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 Adler SR, Chang A, Loeser H, Cooke M, Wang J, Teherani A
• Perceptions of interprofessional teamwork in low-acuity settings: a qualitative analysis.
  Medical education 2014 van Schaik SM, O'Brien BC, Almeida SA, Adler SR
• Correlating traditional Ayurvedic and modern medical perspectives on cancer: results of a qualitative study.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2013 Dhruva A, Hecht FM, Miaskowski C, Kaptchuk TJ, Bodeker G, Abrams D, Lad V, Adler SR
• The International Congress for Educators in Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
  Explore (New York, N.Y.) 2013 Wiles MR, Adler SR
• Innovation and collaboration: the First International Congress for Educators in Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
  Explore (New York, N.Y.) 2013 Haramati A, Adler SR, Wiles M, Sierpina VS, Kreitzer MJ
• Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection
  Series in Medical Anthropology. Rutgers University Press 2011 Adler SR
• Creating an ideal social and behavioural sciences curriculum for medical students.
  Medical education 2010 Satterfield JM, Adler SR, Chen HC, Hauer KE, Saba GW, Salazar R
• "I'm sitting here by myself ...": experiences of patients with serious illness at an Urban Public Hospital.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2010 Dzul-Church V, Cimino JW, Adler SR, Wong P, Anderson WG
• Encouraging scholarship: medical school programs to promote student inquiry beyond the traditional medical curriculum.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2010 Green EP, Borkan JM, Pross SH, Adler SR, Nothnagle M, Parsonnet J, Gruppuso PA
• Why doctors choose small towns: a developmental model of rural physician recruitment and retention.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2009 Hancock C, Steinbach A, Nesbitt TS, Adler SR, Auerswald CL
• Patients' interactions with physicians and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners: older women with breast cancer and self-managed health care.
  Integrative cancer therapies 2009 Adler SR, Wrubel J, Hughes E, Beinfield H
• Use of focus groups in multi-site, multi-ethnic research projects for women's health: a Study of Women Across the Nation (swan) example.
  Ethnicity & disease 2009 Kagawa-Singer M, Adler SR, Mouton CE, Ory M, Underwood LG
• Assessing students' socio-cultural knowledge frameworks through concept.
  Medical education 2008 Adler SR, Wilson E, Coulter YZ
• Minority faculty voices on diversity in academic medicine: perspectives from one school.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2008 Mahoney MR, Wilson E, Odom KL, Flowers L, Adler SR
• Use of complementary and alternative medicine during the menopause transition: longitudinal results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
  Menopause (New York, N.Y.) 2008 Bair YA, Gold EB, Zhang G, Rasor N, Utts J, Upchurch DM, Chyu L, Greendale GA, Sternfeld B, Adler SR
• A novel clinical-trial design for the study of massage therapy.
  Complementary therapies in medicine 2007 Patterson M, Maurer S, Adler SR, Avins AL
• 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 (New York, N.Y.) 2007 Gold EB, Bair Y, Zhang G, Utts J, Greendale GA, Upchurch D, Chyu L, Sternfeld B, Adler S
• Student 'moles': revealing the hidden curriculum.
  Medical education 2006 Adler SR, Hughes EF, Scott RB
• Relationships among older patients, CAM practitioners, and physicians: the advantages of qualitative inquiry.
  Alternative therapies in health and medicine 2003 Adler SR
• Integrative medicine and culture: toward an anthropology of CAM.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2002 Adler SR
• Ethnic differences in use of complementary and alternative medicine at midlife: longitudinal results from SWAN participants.
  American journal of public health 2002 Bair YA, Gold EB, Greendale GA, Sternfeld B, Adler SR, Azari R, Harkey M
• Conceptualizing menopause and midlife: Chinese American and Chinese women in the US.
  Maturitas 2000 Adler SR, Fosket JR, Kagawa-Singer M, McGraw SA, Wong-Kim E, Gold E, Sternfeld B
• Alternative therapies used by women with breast cancer in four ethnic populations.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 Lee MM, Lin SS, Wrensch MR, Adler SR, Eisenberg D
• Pediatric complementary and alternative medicine use: physician-patient communication is vital.
  The Western journal of medicine 1999 Adler SR, Showen NC
• Complementary and alternative medicine use among women with breast cancer.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 1999 Adler SR
• Disclosing complementary and alternative medicine use in the medical encounter: a qualitative study in women with breast cancer.
  The Journal of family practice 1999 Adler SR, Fosket JR
• Refugee stress and folk belief: Hmong sudden deaths.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 1995 Adler SR
• Ethnomedical pathogenesis and Hmong immigrants' sudden nocturnal deaths.
  Culture, medicine and psychiatry 1994 Adler SR