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Healthcare Transparency & Patient Advocacy Kentucky 45th in the Nation For Healthcare Nov 13 2009 Four Points Sheraton Lexington, Kentucky |
Garrett Adams, MD - Resume
Training:
B.A., M.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
M.D., Wake Forest School of Medicine (Bowman Gray)
Pediatric Residency, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Children’s Hospital
of Los Angeles
Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of Colorado, Denver,
Colorado
Master of Public Health (Epidemiology), Johns Hopkins University School of
Hygiene and Public Health (Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Selective Service:
Pediatrician, Pine Ridge Indian Hospital, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Personal: Born in Nashville, Tennessee.
Married, four children, and ten grandchildren
Dr. Adams is a specialist in Infectious Diseases of Children and Infectious
Disease Epidemiology.
He is retired from the full-time faculty of the University of Louisville
School of Medicine where he was Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and
Medical Director of Communicable Diseases at the Louisville Metro Health
Department.
For forty years he attended the health care needs of sick children and their
young families. During his career he witnessed deterioration in health care
access and health care delivery in the United States and now is working full
time for health care reform as an active volunteer member of Physicians for
a National Health Program (
www.PNHP.org ). He is State Coordinator and a
founding member of PNHP-Kentucky (
www.kyhealthcare.org ) and a member of the
national Board of PNHP.
He is the recipient of the Dr. Quentin Young Health Activist Award from
PNHP,
the Civic Leadership Award from the League of Women Voters of Louisville,
and
the Fitzbutler Prize for Humanitarianism in Medicine from University of
Louisville Medical Students