Vincent Felitti, MD

About this presentation

The ACE Study is a major American medical research project studying the relationship between ten categories of adverse life experiences during childhood or adolescence and the prevalence a half century later of well-being, health-risks, biomedical disease, social malfunction, death, and medical care costs. These ten categories turned out to be unexpectedly common in a general, middle-class population. The implications for medical practice are profound and have the potential to provide a new platform upon which to base primary care medicine.