Living with Spina Bifida:
A Guide for Families and Professionals

by Adrian Sandler, M.D.


Published: September 1997

$49.95 hardcover ISBN 0-8078-2352-X
$19.95 paperback ISBN 0-8078-4657-0

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Dr. Adrian Sandler is Medical Director of the Olson Huff Center for Child Development at Thoms Rehabilitation Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. He is also a clinical associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina.

A native of Zimbabwe, Dr. Sandler was educated at the University of Cambridge, England, where he earned his undergraduate degrees and then his medical degree in 1982. He did his Pediatrics residency training at Duke University Medical Center, and then completed a three-year fellowship training program in Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics with Dr. Mel Levine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Sandler was on the full-time academic staff in the Department of Pediatrics at UNC from 1990 through 1994. During that time, he served as Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation, providing leadership in the multidisciplinary clinics serving children with spina bifida and other disorders.

Since September, 1994, he has been the director of a busy regional center, where his responsibilities have been largely in program development and service provision. He has established innovative service models for the evaluation and management of learning disabilities, involving a partnership between schools, parents and the Center. He continues to teach residents and students.

Sandler's research interests include attention deficits, learning disorders and spina bifida, and he has published several peer-reviewed studies as well as the book Living With Spina Bifida: A Guide for Families and Professionals. Dr. Sandler is active in the North Carolina Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, co-chairing the Committee on Children with Special Health Care Needs, and serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics' National Committee on Children with Disabilities.



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