Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304
USA
Presenter: David Sobel, MD, MPH
Consulting Professor
Stanford University
David S. Sobel, MD, MPH is Consulting Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a mentor in the Clinical Effectiveness Research Center (CERC), Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). He has worked with the Stanford Patient Education Research Center on the development and evaluation of the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program.
He was Director of Patient Education and Health Promotion for Kaiser Permanente Northern California which serves over 3.7 million members and practiced adult primary care medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices in San Jose. He was also the physician lead for the national initiative in Patient-Centered Care for the Care Management Institute of Kaiser Permanente.
Dr. Sobel completed a Bachelor’s degree in psychology (University of Michigan), medical education (University of California San Francisco), medical internship (Presbyterian Hospital-Pacific Medical Center), Masters in Public Health and a residency program in General Preventive Medicine (UC Berkeley).
His research and teaching interests include medical self-care, patient education, preventive medicine, behavioral medicine and psychosocial factors in health. He has written ten books: editor of Ways of Health: Holistic Approaches to Ancient and Contemporary Medicine, and coauthor of The People’s Book of Medical Tests, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, The Healing Brain, Healthy Pleasures, The Mind & Body Health Handbook (also published under the title The Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Handbook), What’s the Catch? How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain, and Living a Healthy Life with HIV.
He is recipient of the national Healthtrac Foundation Health Education Award, the Kaiser Permanente James A. Vohs Award for Quality and Exceptional Contribution Award, and Honorary Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education.
Dr. Sobel’s more than 200 television appearances to educate the public about health issues include the Today Show, CNN, Hour Magazine, and a regular television news segment on KNTV, the ABC affiliate station in San Jose. He also served as an invited delegate to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Congress that generated the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion. He has provided over 500 invited keynote lectures in a variety of professional and public venues including the American Hospital Association, World Health Organization (WHO), National Institutes for Health, National Health Service (NHS UK), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Society of Behavioral Medicine, Global Health Leadership Forum (UC Berkeley), UCSF, Stanford, Harvard Community Health Plan, Chevron, Southern California Edison, Blue Cross, National Wellness Institute, and Esalen Institute.
His healthiest pleasures include adventure travel with his wife and filmmaking with his writer/director son.