David H. Adler, MD, MPH

Dr. Adler, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician, educator and researcher. He received his medical training at the University of California at San Francisco and his residency training in emergency medicine at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California. Dr. Adler has been core faculty in the University of Rochester’s emergency medicine residency program since 2006. He is the Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, Research, and also directs the SAEM-approved Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship.

Dr. Adler is the site principal investigator for URMC’s participation in the SIREN network and has served as site-PI for a number of multi-center federal and industry sponsored trials.

Dr. Adler’s research background focused on Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer risk among South African women with HIV. This work generated a specimen repository housed at URMC that is now being used, in collaboration with colleagues from Infectious Diseases, to investigate the reproductive tract microbiome in HIV-infected women.

Dr. Adler is currently the principal investigator in a line of research evaluating interventions to increase cancer screening uptake among emergency department (ED) patients. Disparities in healthcare access are often magnified among ED patients who are disproportionately likely to be non-adherent with cancer screening recommendations – making the ED a target-rich environment for interventions that increase screening uptake.

Dr. Adler is Co-Chair of the NCI-supported Comprehensive Oncologic Emergencies Research Network (CONCERN).