{"id":346,"date":"2010-06-18T12:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/?page_id=346"},"modified":"2011-12-22T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T19:19:00","slug":"stefan-g-kertesz-md-msc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/education-and-training-programs\/addiction-medicine-clinical-research-training\/current-past-addiction-medicine-fellows\/stefan-g-kertesz-md-msc\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan G. Kertesz, MD, MSc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kertesz is an Associate Professor at University of Alabama, Birmingham. As a CARE Fellow Dr. Kertesz developed and submitted a NIDA K23 career development proposal, which was subsequently funded to investigate drug abuse in homeless persons. He has subsequently received independent funding for drug abuse research from NIDA (R01) and the VA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medical School:<\/strong> Harvard Medical School<br \/>\n<strong>Residency:<\/strong> Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Pre-Fellowship Training and Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical Staff, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA<\/li>\n<li>Staff Physician, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Inc, Boston, MA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fellowship Mentor:<\/strong> Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Homeless health and addictions services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fellowship Related\u00a0Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16501393\">Kertesz SG, Larson MJ, Cheng DM, Tucker JA, Winter M, Mullins A, Saitz R, Samet JH. Need and non-need factors associated with addiction treatment utilization in a cohort of homeless and housed urban poor. Med Care. 2006;44(3):225-233<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15908852\">Kertesz SG, Larson MJ, Horton NJ, Winter M, Saitz R, Samet JH. Homeless chronicity and health-related quality of life trajectories among adults with addictions. Med Care. 2005;43:574-585<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12810140\">Kertesz SG, Horton NJ, Friedmann PD, Saitz R, Samet JH. Slowing the revolving door: stabilization programs reduce homeless persons\u2019 substance use after detoxification. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2003;24:197-207.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Grants Written During Fellowship:<\/strong> Homeless Persons\u2019 Use of Addiction Treatment Services (K23 DA015487-01; 12\/02-8\/08; $849,516)<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Positions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>Medical Staff and Research Physician, Birmingham VA Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>Medical Staff, Cooper Green Hospital, Birmingham, AL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kertesz is an Associate Professor at University of Alabama, Birmingham. As a CARE Fellow Dr. Kertesz developed and submitted a NIDA K23 career development proposal, which was subsequently funded to investigate drug abuse in homeless persons. He has subsequently received independent funding for drug abuse research from NIDA (R01) and the VA. Medical School: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2921,"featured_media":0,"parent":2516,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions\/4627"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}