Stefan Kertesz, M.D.

Center Investigator

Medical Staff, University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham, AL;

Staff Physician, Birmingham Health Care  (homeless health care organization), Birmingham, AL;

Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, (Divisions of Preventive and General Internal Medicine), University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL;

Medical Staff, Cooper Green Hospital, Birmingham, AL

Selected Publications

Milby JB, Schumacher JE, Vuchnich R, Kertesz SG, Mennemeyer ST. Sustained abstinence for treated substance abusing homeless persons leads to stable housing and employment. American Journal of Public Health, in press.

Kertesz SG, Crouch K, Milby J, Cusimano RA, Schumacher J. Housing First for homeless persons with active addiction: are we overreaching? Milbank Quarterly, in press. (pre-release copy at
http://papers.ssm.com/so13/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1354857)

Kertesz SG, Hwang SW, Ritchey FJ, LaGory M. Rising inability to obtain needed health care among homeless persons in Birmingham: 1995-2005. Journal of General Internal Medicine, in press.

Kertesz SG, Posner MA, O'Connell JJ, Compton AN, Swain SE, Shwartz M, Ash AS. 2009. Post-hospital medical respite care and readmission of homeless persons. J Prev Interv Community 37(2):129-142.

Kertesz SG, Weiner SJ. 2009. Housing the chronically homeless: high hopes, complex realities. Journal of the American Medical Association 301(17):1822-1824.