Dr. Stanford Shoor reviews medical content for
Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better
health decisions. Dr. Shoor, an internist specializing in rheumatology, has
been on the Clinical Faculty of Stanford University since 1986 and currently
holds an appointment as an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine and
Rheumatology.
Dr. Shoor has served as principal investigator or
co-investigator for a number of research projects sponsored by Kaiser Health
Plan and the Stanford Arthritis Center. He serves on the medical review boards
for the Journal of General Internal Medicine,
Permanente Journal, ACP Journal,
and the Evidence Based Medicine section of the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal
Medicine-1982
American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty:
Rheumatology-1984
Healthwise Knowledgebase Topics Reviewed
Gout
Juvenile Rheumatoid
Arthritis
Medical Tests: Antinuclear Antibodies, Erythrocyte
Sedimentation Rate, Rheumatoid
Factor
Osteoarthritis
Raynaud's
Syndrome
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sjögren's
Syndrome
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Education
M.D.: Stanford University School of Medicine,
1979
Internship, University of Washington,
1978-1980
Residency, University of Washington,
1980-1982
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Stanford University
School of Medicine, 1982-1984
Fellowship in Immunology, Stanford
University School of Medicine, 1982-1984
Academic Appointments
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology, Stanford
University, 1986-present
Hospital Affiliations
Staff Director, Mid-Peninsula Health Service,
1973-1975
Internist, Rheumatology, Kaiser Foundation Hospital,
Santa Clara, California, 1984-present
Chief of Professional
Education, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Santa Clara, 1988-present
Professional Affiliations
American College of
Physicians
American College of Rheumatology
Selected Publications
O'Leary A, Shoor SM, Lorig K, Holman HR
(1988). A cognitive-behavioral treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
Health Psychology 7(6): 527-544.
Lorig K,
Chastain RL, Ung E, Shoor S, Holman HR (1989). Development and evaluation of a
scale to measure perceived self-efficacy in people with arthritis.
Arthritis and Rheumatology 32(1): 37-44.
Graham, DJ, Campen D, Hui R, Spence M, Cheetham C, Shoor S, Ray W
(2005). Risk of acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death in
patients treated with cyclo-oxygenase 2 selective and non-selective
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: Nested case control study.
Lancet, 365(9468): 475-481.
Herrinton L, Liu
L, Shoor S, Mines D (2008). Risk of lymphoproliferative cancer among patients
with severe rheumatoid arthritis, 1996-2002. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 67(4): 574-575.
