He is Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago.
[1] Adam Cifu started his career as a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School in 1993, and became an instructor in medicine in 1996.
In one large study, Prasad, Adam Cifu, and collaborators reviewed all of the original research articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine between 2001 and 2010.
With Scott Stern and Diane Altkorn he authored the textbook, Symptom to Diagnosis: An Evidence Based Guide.
The book teaches an evidence-based, step-by-step process for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients based on their clinical complaints.
Doody's Review stated that the book is "useful as a refresher for established clinicians when the more common diagnoses are not the cause of a patient's complaints.