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.