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Summary

• Dr. Adam Schickedanz is a pediatrician Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar alumnus at UCLA in the Department of Pediatrics. Adam Schickedanz' research focuses on social determinants of health in children and families, particularly with respect to financial hardship and its influence on child health and parent well-being.
  
  Adam Schickedanz practices pediatrics in Los Angeles. He trained in San Francisco at the University of California San Francisco, where he was a chief resident after completing his pediatrics residency.
  
  Dr. Adam Schickedanz currently oversees a trial of a community-based financial empowerment intervention to examine its impact on parent and family health and well-being. This study builds on work Dr. Schickedanz did to develop the first Medical-Financial Partnership, the Financial Fitness Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital.
  
  Adam is also a doctoral student in Health Policy and Management at UCLA, where he continues to research the impact of childhood adversity on health system costs and intergenerational transmission of health risk.
Adam Schickedanz, M.D. | The Huffington Post
Here is a link to my profile on the Huffington Post, which contains the article Robert Accordino and I wrote on patient-centered care.

Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care
This report from the National Academies Press provided a blueprint for considering costs and quality in care for cancer patients. Adam Schickedanz Rapporteur.

Research on Integrating Social & Medical Care | SIREN | Adam Schickedanz
Dr. Adam Schickedanz is a member of the RAC for SIREN. SIREN's mission is to catalyze & disseminate high quality research to integrate medical & social services

Will having kids soon be out of reach economically for many American families?
Parenthood should be affordable in this country, but the cost of raising a child from birth to adulthood is now a quarter of a million dollars.

Inadequate financial savings tied to increased childhood health risks
The connection between a family's income and childhood health has been well-established.

Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
Dr. Schickedanz is a former Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC.

RWJ Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA
Dr. Schickedanz is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar alumnus at UCLA.