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| Joel Adelson |
Email: joel.adelson@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (415) 502-9623
Dr. Joel W. Adelson is the Chief of the Integrating Medicine and Public Health (“IMAP”) Program at the Institute for Health & Aging and the California Department of Health Services. He joined the Institute for Health & Aging early in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Southern California, and did postdoctoral training in Biological Chemistry at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
He completed his M.D. degree at UCSF, where he did postgraduate training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology. He recently completed an MPH degree at Columbia University with a concentration in Health Policy and Management. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology.
Dr. Adelson is formerly Associate Professor of Pediatrics at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1981-1999), and Professor and Vice-Chair of Pediatrics and Professor of Physiology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (1990-1998) where he was also Co-Director of the Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Training Program.
Dr. Adelson's major interests lie in public health, health policy, and studies on the improvement of the quality of medical interventions. He is the senior author of numerous scientific papers and chapters in the fields of medicine, evolutionary biology, and physiology, including papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been honored by election to the American Pediatric Society and Best Doctors in America, and has won several teaching awards.
Title: California Asthma Among the School-Aged Project (CAASA)
http://arcc.ucsf.edu/caasa
Project Period: 7/1/01-8/31/07
Funding Agency: The California Endowment
Description: The project intends to demonstrate a decrease in
asthma morbidity and improved quality of life for school-aged children
with asthma and their families by linking improved clinical care to the
community. CAASA targets children with asthma ages five to eighteen and
their families who receive primary care from providers of high-volume
services to school-aged children with asthma in high-need California
communities. High-need communities may include communities that have
high asthma morbidity, a high proportion of low-income families,
language and cultural barriers, exposures to important environmental
factors that may exacerbate asthma, or poor access to high quality
medical care. By addressing asthma in school-aged children, we will
target a population with high need and high asthma morbidity. By
focusing on high-need communities and the clinics that provide services
to such communities, the project targets children at highest risk to
reduce health disparities in childhood asthma. Dr. Adelson is acting as
the medical consultant on this project and is participating in its
leadership with the Principal Investigator, Dr. Patrick Fox and the
Project Director, Patricia G. Porter, RN, MPH, CHES.
Title: Integrating Medicine and Public Health
Project Period: 7/1/06 - 6/30/07
Funding Agency: Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc.
Description:
The goal of this project is to provide
technical assistance and leadership to the California Adult Immunization
Coalition through strategic planning, implementation of workgroups and
projects, ongoing efforts to seek funding opportunities, and overall
evaluation of the
Coalition.
Title: Integrating Medical Care and Public Health Program (IMAP)
http://sbs.ucsf.edu/iha/imap.htm
Project Period: 7/1/96-1/31/06
Funding Agency: Calif. Dept. of Health Services
Description: This Program represents a University-based focal point within the
Department of Health Services to assist in planning, implementing and
evaluating programs that improve the health of Californians by
integrating efforts of the medical care and public health sectors. Dr. Adelson is the present Chief of this multifaceted project, in
partnership with the Assistant Chief, Patricia G. Porter, RN, MPH, CHES.
Present/recent activities of IMAP include the CAASA Project (http://arcc.ucsf.edu/caasa/);
leadership and technical assistance to the California Adult Immunization
Coalition (http://www.immunizecaadults.org),
consultation and guidance to medical and public health institutions in
Alameda and Solano Counties. IMAP is a leading participant in a number
of statewide projects and initiatives including the California Medicine
and Public Health Initiative, a group comprised of medical and public
health leadership from numerous constituencies throughout California
which gathers and exchanges information on broad trends in public health
and medicine, and which advocates for effective policy and
administration in improving the health of Californians. IMAP has also
been a continuous participant in the Alliance Working for Antibiotic
Resistance Education (“AWARE”), http://www.aware.md.
Title: Influenza and Pneumonia Prevention in Long Term Care
Project Period: 7/1/05-6/30/06
Funding Agency: Archstone Foundation
Description: In partnership with the Immunization Branch of the
California Department of Health Services, and with cooperation from
major professional organizations, representing over 1,300 California
long-term care facilities and medical professionals, the goals of this
project are to (1) conduct a comprehensive project intended to
increase immunization rates for influenza among patients and health care
workers in long-term facilities; (2) improve knowledge of appropriate
methodologies to control influenza outbreaks in long-term care
facilities, and (3) increase immunization rates for pneumococcal
pneumonia among patients in long-term care facilities.
Title: Bioterrorism Planning Response - Solano County
Project Period: 9/1/05-12/31/05
Funding Agency: Solano County Health and Social Services
Description: The goal of this project was to maximize the
utilization of the resources available to Solano County to assure
that specific requirements of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response for
Bioterrorism are met. This project involved the development of
a community exercise plan, assessment of public health training
needs, expansion of partnerships with the medical community,
identification of methods to assess special needs populations in a
public health emergency, assess communication equipment needs and
training, develop a laboratory community response plan and
partnership, and make recommendations for a disaster service
workers protocol.
Hardy CM, Dwyer J, Snelling LK, Dallal GE and Adelson JW. Pitfalls in predicting resting energy requirements in critically ill children: A comparison of predictive methods to indirect calorimetry. Nutrition in Clinical Practice. June 2002.
Adelson, JW: From aardvarks to apples and orchids to ostriches: The simple evolutionary roots of a world of biological complexity and biodiversity. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2001: 61, Suppl 234: 13-18.
Adelson JW, Clarizio R, Coutu JA: Pancreatic digestive enzyme secretion in the rabbit: neurosecretory-like cyclic variations in enzyme composition. Proc Nat Acad Sci, U.S., 1995, 92:2553-2557.
Denno DM, Bentsi-Enchill A, Mock CN, Adelson JW: Maternal knowledge, attitude and practices regarding childhood acute respiratory infections in Kumasi, Ghana. Annals of Topical Paediatrics, 1994, 14:293-301.
Adelson JW and Compton CC: Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital; an eight-month-old boy with diarrhea and failure to thrive. New Engl J Med, 1992, 327:628-635.
Adelson JW and Miller PE: Heterogeneity of the exocrine pancreas. Am J Physiol, 1989, 256:G817-825.
Shevell MI, Bernard B, Adelson JW et al: Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type I: Longterm treatment by home phototherapy followed by orthotopic hepatic transplantation. J Pedr, 1987, 110:429-431.
Schreiber R and Adelson JW: Kwashiorkor in an urban Canadian child. Can Med Assn J, 1985, 133:888-889.
Adelson JW and Miller PE: Pancreatic secretion by nonparallel exocytosis: Potential resolution of a long controversy. Science, 1985, 228:993-996.
Adelson JW: Pathophysiology of the pancreas in cystic fibrosis. J Ped Gastroenterol and Nutrit, 1984, 3:574-578.
Adelson JW and Rothman SS: Selective pancreatic enzyme secretion due to a new peptide called chymodenin. Science, 1974, 183:1087-1089.
Adelson JW: Enterosecretory proteins. Nature, 1971, 229:321-325.
Adelson JW and Freeman KB: Acute and chronic diarrhea in infants and children. In: "Current Pediatric Therapy, 14th Ed." Burg FD, Ingelfinger J, and Wald E, Eds., WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1993, pp. 200-202.
Shalon LB and Adelson JW: Cystic Fibrosis: Gastrointestinal complications and gene therapy. In "Pediatric Clinics of North America" Vol. 43, No. 1, Feb., 1996.
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