Adam L. Scheffler, BA, MA, LSW

Adam L. Scheffler is an award-winning editor, writer, researcher, analyst, and social worker focused on health policy, community health, and informed self-care. He has experience in addiction counseling, alcohol and mental health policy, healthcare journalism, local election administration, patient safety advocacy and policy, public mental health services, and television news writing, editing, and production.

Adam currently serves on the National Association of Social Workers Delegate Assembly, the NASW-Illinois Chapter Legislative Committee, the Illinois Public Health Association Policy and Legislative Committee, and the Coalition for Social Work and Health. He earned an MA in Social Administration from the University of Chicago and a BA in Political Science (With Honors) from DePaul University.

As a grant-funded project manager with the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), Adam organized the Developing a National Policy Agenda for Improving Patient Safety Forum in 1999 and the Enhancing Patient Safety and Reducing Errors in Health Care (Annenberg II) Conference in 1998, and co-edited the Annenberg II Conference Proceedings (NPSF, 1999). He later co-authored A Collection of Definitions in Lessons in Patient Safety (NPSF, 2001) and Medical Error: What Do We Know? What Do We Do? (Jossey-Bass, 2002).