FREDERICK WILLIAM ADLER, M.D. Born: Corpus Christi, Texas
September 8, 1952
San Francisco, CA 94110
E-mail: adde4r@r.postjobfree.com Health: Excellent
PROFESSIONAL GOALS: Urgent Care, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine
EDUCATION
1978-1982 Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York
M.D. 05/82
1976-1979 Columbia University
New York, New York
B.S. Biology 10/79
1971-1973 McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
2 years of undergraduate work in music
(composition and piano)
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
1982-83 University of California-Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California 95817
Family Practice (Rotating) Internship
1983-85 Merced Community Medical Center
Merced, California 95340
Completion of Family Practice Residency
University of California, Davis Affiliated Residency Program
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING (continued)
Summer 1990 Mountain Area Health Education Center
Family Practice Residency Program
Memorial Mission Hospital
Asheville, North Carolina 28803
Refresher Fellowship in High Risk and
Surgical Obstetrics
BOARD CERTIFICATION
Family Practice (American Board of Family Practice)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Academy of Family Physicians
Physicians for a National Health Service
MEDICAL WORK EXPERIENCE
08/1985-03/1986 Trinity Family Medical Group
Weaverville, California
Rural Family Practice including full back-up for nurse-midwives
and emergency room work. Subcontractor with the Westworld
Corporation; left because of ethical conflicts with this corporation.
05/1987-09/1989 North Country Clinic
Arcata, California
Family Practice Physician in non-profit community clinic with
strong emphases in Women's Health, Obstetrics and Pediatrics.
Included back-up and teaching for mid-level practitioners.
03/1986-06/1999 The General Hospital
Eureka, California
Emergency Room Physician
MEDICAL WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
04/1988-05/1999 Mad River Community Hospital
Arcata, California
Emergency Room Physician
06/1991-05/1993 The Training Exchange/UNAN-León
90 West Street
Foxboro, Massachusetts
Long-term international volunteer, teaching
primary care medicine at the National
Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN),
León, Nicaragua
10/1993- 05/2008 Redwood Memorial Hospital
Fortuna, California
Emergency Room Physician
07/1999-12/2005 Sutter Coast Hospital
Crescent City, California
Emergency Room Physician
10/2005-08/2009 Mendocino Coast District Hospital
Ft. Bragg, California
Emergency Room Physician
10/2005-05/2007 K’ima:w Medical Center
Hoopa, California
Urgent Care Physician
03/2006-04/2009 Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital
Solvang, California
Emergency Room Physician
06/2006-10/2009 Sutter Lakeside Hospital
Lakeport, California
Emergency Room Physician
MEDICAL WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
09/2006-12/2009 Lompoc District Hospital
Lompoc, California
Emergency Room Physician
04/2008-03/2019 Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
Martinez, California
Emergency Room Physician and
Associate Program Director, Family Medicine Residency
08/2013-08/2015 Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital
Hollister, California
Emergency Room Physician
06/2017-12/2018 Northern Navajo Medical Center
Shiprock, New Mexico
Emergency Room Physician
09/2017-present Palo Alto Medical Foundation Urgent Care
San Mateo, California
Urgent Care Physician
WORK EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO MEDICAL SCHOOL
05/1972-06/1974 Montreal, Quebec
London, England
Palo Alto, California
Student of music; freelance musician working as teacher of
composition and piano; composer and concert pianist
08/1974-05/1975 Pharm Chem Laboratories
Palo Alto, California
Laboratory Technician
06/1975-11/1975 National Committee for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty
Writer and staff person in national office,New York, New York
11/1975-09/1976 U.S. Federal Court, Second Circuit, New York, New York
Statistician and writer for the office of the Court Administrator
WORK EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO MEDICAL SCHOOL (continued)
06/1978-09/1979 Stanley Kaplan, Ltd.
New York, New York
Research and preparation of course material for Medical College
Admission Test preparatory court
ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
02/1987-09/1987 Medical Director
Emergency Department
General Hospital
Eureka, California
09/1988-09/1989 Medical Director
North Country Clinic
Arcata, California
06/1991-05/1993 The Training Exchange/UNAN-León
Organizational and personnel responsibilities coordinating
program implementation within Nicaragua and placement of U.S. volunteers
06/1999- 06/2000 Medical Director for Quality Assurance
Emergency Department
Redwood Memorial Hospital
Fortuna, California
Partner, Redwood Emergency Physicians with
contractual agreement to provide Emergency Medicine
services at Redwood Memorial Hospital, Fortuna, California
09/2011-03/2019 Associate Program Director
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center Family Medicine Residency
Martinez, California
07/2015-3/2019 Volunteer Clinical Faculty, Department of Family Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
VOLUNTEER WORK
1991-1993 Full-time with the Training Exchange in Central America as detailed above under Work Experience.
1993-2000 Teaching and organizational support for Family Practice Residency of Hospital-Alemán, Managua, Nicaragua.
Residency teaching at Family Practice Residency of
Hospital Francés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Teaching and organizational work for project to integrate mental
health services into primary care in the Province of Neuquén, Argentina (coordinated through Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York)
Member of Board of Directors and occasional clinician for Mobile Medical Clinic, giving care to homeless and medically underserved in Humboldt County, California
PUBLICATIONS “A Case”, a poem in Dissecting Room section of
The Lancet, Vol. 350, Num.9091, 29 November 1997
“Nicaraguan Health Care” Correspondence section of
The Lancet, Vol. 353, Num.9150, 30 January 1999
“Using Local Resources in Patagonia; Primary Care and
Mental Health in Neuquén, Argentina”
International Journal of Mental Health Vol. 28, No.3, Fall 1999
“A Veteran's 13th case of Pneumonia—Treated”, a poem in
The Lancet, Vol. 358, Num. 9294, 17 November 2001
LANGUAGES Fluent spoken and written Spanish
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