William G. Adams, MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Biography
I am an epidemiologist, medical informatician, and practicing pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC). I also currently serve as Director of BU-CTSI Clinical Research Informatics for Boston University and as Director of Child Health Informatics for the Department of Pediatrics at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine/BMC. For the past two decades, my primary research has been and continues to be focused on developing and evaluating information technology (IT)-based solutions for improving the quality of health and healthcare for children and families. My focuses include the child health EHR, patient-centered IT and clinical data warehousing for quality improvement and health disparities research. I have extensive experience in software development (including programming of the first EHR at BMC and development of multiple patient-centered telephony projects) as well as the management and use of large clinical data sets for quality reporting and research. I seek to create and evaluate integrated health information systems that are useable and effective.
Other Positions
- Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University
Education
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, MD
- Harvard University, BA
Publications
- Published on 11/6/2022
Spencer AE, Sikov J, Adams WG, Jellinek M, Murphy JM, Garg A. Addressing Social Determinants of Mental Health in Pediatrics During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic. Acad Pediatr. 2022 Nov 06. PMID: 36351513.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/18/2022
Pearson C, Bartell T, Wang G, Hong X, Rusk SA, Fu L, Cerda S, Bustamante-Helfrich B, Kuohung W, Yarrington C, Adams WG, Wang X. Boston Birth Cohort Profile: Rationale and Study Design. Precis Nutr. 2022 Nov; 1(2). PMID: 36660305.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/30/2022
Bozigar M, Connolly CL, Legler A, Adams WG, Milando CW, Reynolds DB, Carnes F, Jimenez RB, Peer K, Vermeer K, Levy JI, Fabian MP. In-home environmental exposures predicted from geospatial characteristics of the built environment and electronic health records of children with asthma. Ann Epidemiol. 2022 Sep; 73:38-47. PMID: 35779709.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/24/2022
Madlock-Brown C, Wilkens K, Weiskopf N, Cesare N, Bhattacharyya S, Riches NO, Espinoza J, Dorr D, Goetz K, Phuong J, Sule A, Kharrazi H, Liu F, Lemon C, Adams WG. Correction: Clinical, social, and policy factors in COVID-19 cases and deaths: methodological considerations for feature selection and modeling in county-level analyses. BMC Public Health. 2022 Jun 24; 22(1):1250. PMID: 35751109.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/14/2022
Hao B, Hu Y, Sotudian S, Zad Z, Adams WG, Assoumou SA, Hsu H, Mishuris RG, Paschalidis IC. Development and validation of predictive models for COVID-19 outcomes in a safety-net hospital population. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 Jun 14; 29(7):1253-1262. PMID: 35441692.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/23/2022
Phuong J, Hong S, Palchuk MB, Espinoza J, Meeker D, Dorr DA, Lozinski G, Madlock-Brown C, Adams WG. Advancing Interoperability of Patient-level Social Determinants of Health Data to Support COVID-19 Research. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2022; 2022:396-405. PMID: 35854720.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/14/2022
Madlock-Brown C, Wilkens K, Weiskopf N, Cesare N, Bhattacharyya S, Riches NO, Espinoza J, Dorr D, Goetz K, Phuong J, Sule A, Kharrazi H, Liu F, Lemon C, Adams WG. Clinical, social, and policy factors in COVID-19 cases and deaths: methodological considerations for feature selection and modeling in county-level analyses. BMC Public Health. 2022 Apr 14; 22(1):747. PMID: 35421958.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/15/2022
Pfaff ER, Girvin AT, Gabriel DL, Kostka K, Morris M, Palchuk MB, Lehmann HP, Amor B, Bissell M, Bradwell KR, Gold S, Hong SS, Loomba J, Manna A, McMurry JA, Niehaus E, Qureshi N, Walden A, Zhang XT, Zhu RL, Moffitt RA, Haendel MA, Chute CG, Adams WG, Al-Shukri S, Anzalone A, Baghal A, Bennett TD, Bernstam EV, Bernstam EV, Bissell MM, Bush B, Campion TR, Castro V, Chang J, Chaudhari DD, Chen W, Chu S, Cimino JJ, Crandall KA, Crooks M, Davies SJD, DiPalazzo J, Dorr D, Eckrich D, Eltinge SE, Fort DG, Golovko G, Gupta S, Haendel MA, Hajagos JG, Hanauer DA, Harnett BM, Horswell R, Huang N, Johnson SG, Kahn M, Khanipov K, Kieler C, Luzuriaga KR, Maidlow S, Martinez A, Mathew J, McClay JC, McMahan G, Melancon B, Meystre S, Miele L, Morizono H, Pablo R, Patel L, Phuong J, Popham DJ, Pulgarin C, Santos C, Sarkar IN, Sazo N, Setoguchi S, Soby S, Surampalli S, Suver C, Vangala UMR, Visweswaran S, Oehsen JV, Walters KM, Wiley L, Williams DA, Zai A. Synergies between centralized and federated approaches to data quality: a report from the national COVID cohort collaborative. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 03 15; 29(4):609-618. PMID: 34590684.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/19/2021
Pantell RH, Roberts KB, Adams WG, Dreyer BP, Kuppermann N, O'Leary ST, Okechukwu K, Woods CR. Evaluation and Management of Well-Appearing Febrile Infants 8 to 60 Days Old. Pediatrics. 2021 08; 148(2). PMID: 34281996.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/1/2021
Walsh KE, Bacic J, Phillips BD, Adams WG. Misuse of Pediatric Medications and Parent-Physician Communication: An Interactive Voice Response Intervention. J Patient Saf. 2021 04 01; 17(3):e207-e213. PMID: 28333698.
Read at: PubMed
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