Steve Adelman, MD
Collaborative Coaching & Consulting
for Medical Leaders, Professionals & Organizations
About AdelMED
At AdelMED we leverage the client’s strengths while sizing up the complex personal challenges and interpersonal friction points that impede the peak performance of individuals, teams, and organizations. We recommend actionable solutions.

Steve Adelman, MD has worked as an effective and empathic leader in a major academic medical center, on the board and in the delivery system of a large multispecialty medical group, and at the helm of a nationally renowned physician health program. Trained at Harvard (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa), Penn Medical School, and Harvard’s McLean Hospital (chief resident), he is an experienced medical leader, as well as a seasoned psychiatrist, a highly-regarded addiction expert, and a practicing thought leader in physician coaching.
At AdelMED, Steve Adelman, MD delivers a range of targeted and expert consultative and improvement services to physicians, leaders, teams, and organizations. AdelMED’s mission is to enhance individual and group performance by piecing together the human puzzle and putting into action an effective plan that aligns with the mission and promotes the well-being of each stakeholder.
Individuals
Our initial goal is to determine mutual compatibility and to help you decide if the AdelMED approach is right for you. Please contact us and we’ll promptly schedule a free and confidential introductory phone meeting or videoconference that lasts 20-30 minutes. Most AdelMED individual clients are dedicated and accomplished leaders or professionals with a desire to optimize performance and well-being. If we decide to move forward, we’ll schedule one or two consultative videoconference sessions to drill down on the particulars. At this point, we’ll decide together whether or not AdelMED coaching is a good fit for you. If not, we will review with you at least two other viable alternatives to consider.
The following services are available on a limited basis: Psychotherapy; recovery coaching; supervision; psychiatry and addiction medicine. Dr. Adelman does not accept health insurance and fees are available upon request.
Steve Adelman, MD discussing coaching for physicians at the request of Jeff Auerbach, Ph.D., who featured Dr. Adelman’s longer video-presentation at a conference of the Society of Consulting Psychology in 2017.

Organizations
AdelMED assists organizations with any of the following concerns: behavioral or performance challenges of specific employees, teams, departments, or leaders; or, an enterprise-wide initiative. Enterprise-wide initiatives may involve (but are not limited to) professional health, well-being, and burnout; coaching; retention and turnover of health professionals; substance use, misuse, policies or testing; or, health-related medicolegal challenges.
Depending on the situation, AdelMED’s work with an organization may involve:
- A brief consultation (2-4 sessions)
- A more extended consulting role
- A mutually agreed-upon plan for team, group, or organizational coaching.
By the end of our free and confidential introductory phone meeting, we’ll determine whether or not it makes sense for us to schedule a consultation. Contact us to get started.

AdelMED has experience working with:
- Academic medical centers, group practices, health systems & hospitals
- Corporate boards & C-suite executives
- Employee assistance programs & medical professional health programs (PHPs)
- Graduate medical education programs & medical schools
- Investors & start-ups
- Law firms, HR departments, legal departments & locum tenens firms
- Medical boards, specialty groups and departments; professional societies
- Occupational medicine consultants and departments
- Telehealth vendors






AdelMED Media Coverage
The Horror of Darkened Hearts
Read more in this KevinMD article
Avoid “Shots in the Dark” to Maintain Pristine Professional Boundaries
Read more in this Psychiatric Times article
I’m covering the practice of a “Dr. Feel Good”
Read more in this KevinMD article
Doctors have had it with tall tales (and those who tell them)
Read more in this KevinMD article
No one is in charge of the free-for-all that is U.S. health care
Read more in this KevinMD article.
How Physicians Can Be Better Leaders
Listen to KevinMD interview Dr. Steve on this podcast.
Mansplaining in Medicine
Read about “Mansplaining in Medicine” on MedPage Today
Focus on the Journey: Psychiatry over 4 Decades
Read the interview with Dr. Steve on Doximity
Fighting the Opioid Crisis
Watch the video interview with Dr. Steve as he takes on questions about opioids in the U.S. in the Big Q video series on the Psychiatric Times website.
We're Building the Plane as We Fly It
Health systems and organizations must do more to support the well-being of providers. Read more on MedPage Today.
Why it’s Important to Embrace Dialectical Thinking
Read about this on the Kevin MD blog.
Partnering With State Physician Health Programs
How can State Physician Health Programs guide your care of physician patients? Read about it in this Psychiatric Times article.
The Case for Caution When Prescribing Benzodiazepines
Are benzodiazepine prescriptions contributing to the opioid overdose epidemic? Read about it in this Psychiatric Times article.
Yes or no questions may be hazardous to healthy relationships
When confronted with a yes or no question, many people assume that there is a right answer. Read more in this KevinMD article.
A Role for Psychiatry in Understanding and Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy
Can our training and experience as psychiatrists shed light on vaccine hesitancy? Read more in this Psychiatric Times article.