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Adolescent Medicine: A Handbook for Primary Care
Designed for quick reference in a busy office, this handbook is a concise, practical guide to everyday clinical problems in adolescent medicine. This ready-reference manual is written by noted experts to provide immediate, authoritative answers to questions about common medical and behavioral problems in teenagers. Numerous tables, bulleted lists, and charts help practitioners find information quickly, and a formulary offers guidance in prescribing for teenagers. Coverage includes every important topic in adolescent gynecology and up-to-date strategies for evaluating and treating obese teenagers. Other key concerns addressed include sports medicine, substance abuse, and adolescent violence and suicide.
324 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2005
About the author
Victor C. Strasburger
24 booksVictor C. Strasburger is an American pediatrician, an adolescent medicine expert, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics emeritus and the Founding Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is an international expert on the effects of media on children and adolescents and has authored many of the American Academy of Pediatrics' policy statements on children and media.
Strasburger graduated from the Baltimore City College (high school) in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967 where he was the editor of the high school's year book. He attended Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, where he studied fiction writing with Robert Penn Warren, and from Harvard Medical School. He trained at the Children's Hospital in Seattle, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and the Boston Children's Hospital.
He has also appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, has been featured several times in Newsweek, and has been heard numerous times on NPR (National Public Radio) and in local media. His op-ed columns on children and adolescents are featured in Liberal Opinion Weekly. In 2000, Dr. Strasburger was honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics with the Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award, for outstanding lifetime achievement in Adolescent Medicine, and was the first recipient of the Holroyd-Sherry Award, given for media Advocacy work. In 2006, he was awarded the Society for Adolescent Medicine's Visiting Professorship and lectured at the Sydney Children's Hospital in Australia. In 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin, New Zealand. In 2012, Dr. Strasburger was named a Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico -- the highest honor the University bestows on its faculty. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2013. Dr. Strasburger has lectured in 47 of 50 states and on 5 continents. Dr. Strasburger's 1st novel, Rounding Third & Heading Home, was published in 1974 by St. Martin's Press when he was a senior in medical school.
Strasburger graduated from the Baltimore City College (high school) in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967 where he was the editor of the high school's year book. He attended Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, where he studied fiction writing with Robert Penn Warren, and from Harvard Medical School. He trained at the Children's Hospital in Seattle, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and the Boston Children's Hospital.
He has also appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, has been featured several times in Newsweek, and has been heard numerous times on NPR (National Public Radio) and in local media. His op-ed columns on children and adolescents are featured in Liberal Opinion Weekly. In 2000, Dr. Strasburger was honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics with the Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award, for outstanding lifetime achievement in Adolescent Medicine, and was the first recipient of the Holroyd-Sherry Award, given for media Advocacy work. In 2006, he was awarded the Society for Adolescent Medicine's Visiting Professorship and lectured at the Sydney Children's Hospital in Australia. In 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin, New Zealand. In 2012, Dr. Strasburger was named a Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico -- the highest honor the University bestows on its faculty. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2013. Dr. Strasburger has lectured in 47 of 50 states and on 5 continents. Dr. Strasburger's 1st novel, Rounding Third & Heading Home, was published in 1974 by St. Martin's Press when he was a senior in medical school.
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