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 1/25/2025
Idnay B, Xu Z, Adams WG, Adibuzzaman M, Anderson NR, Bahroos N, Bell DS, Bumgardner C, Campion T, Castro M, Cimino JJ, Cohen IG, Dorr D, Elkin PL, Fan JW, Ferris T, Foran DJ, Hanauer D, Hogarth M, Huang K, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Kandpal M, Karnik NS, Katoch A, Lai AM, Lambert CG, Li L, Lindsell C, Liu J, Lu Z, Luo Y, McGarvey P, Mendonca EA, Mirhaji P, Murphy S, Osborne JD, Paschalidis IC, Harris PA, Prior F, Shaheen NJ, Shara N, Sim I, Tachinardi U, Waitman LR, Wright RJ, Zai AH, Zheng K, Lee SS, Malin BA, Natarajan K, Price Ii WN, Zhang R, Zhang Y, Xu H, Bian J, Weng C, Peng Y. Environment scan of generative AI infrastructure for clinical and translational science. Npj Health Syst. 2025; 2(1):4. PMID: 39872195.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/2/2025
Borrelli B, Endrighi R, Heeren T, Adams WG, Gansky SA, Werntz S, Rueras N, Stephens D, Ameli N, Henshaw MM. Parent-Targeted Oral Health Text Messaging for Underserved Children Attending Pediatric Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jan 02; 8(1):e2452780. PMID: 39745701.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/15/2024
Li Z, Wang G, Braun JM, Hong X, Choi G, O'Leary SP, Yu CH, Pearson C, Adams WG, Fan ZT, Buckley JP, Wang X. Associations of early life per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure with body mass index and risk of overweight or obesity at age 2-18 years: Mixture analysis in the prospective Boston Birth Cohort. Environ Int. 2025 Jan; 195:109206. PMID: 39705976.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/8/2024
Deo AJ, Castro VM, Baker A, Carroll D, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Henderson DC, Holt DJ, Hook K, Karmacharya R, Roffman JL, Madsen EM, Song E, Adams WG, Camacho L, Gasman S, Gibbs JS, Fortgang RG, Kennedy CJ, Lozinski G, Perez DC, Wilson M, Reis BY, Smoller JW. Validation of an ICD-Code-Based Case Definition for Psychotic Illness Across Three Health Systems. Schizophr Bull. 2024 Nov 08; 50(6):1482-1488. PMID: 38728421.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/28/2024
Egan KA, Fiore JG, Luo M, Kelly S, Adams WG, Taveras EM, Simione M, Kistin CJ. Food and Housing Insecurity, COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Health-Related Activities, and Care Plans for Children with Obesity. Acad Pediatr. 2025 Mar; 25(2):102598. PMID: 39490687.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/8/2024
Hao B, Hu Y, Adams WG, Assoumou SA, Hsu HE, Bhadelia N, Paschalidis IC. A GPT-based EHR modeling system for unsupervised novel disease detection. J Biomed Inform. 2024 Sep; 157:104706. PMID: 39121932.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/1/2024
Lehmann CU, Adams WG, Chaparro JD, Fiks AG, Grout RW, Leu MG, Mendonca EA, Michel JJ, Okechukwu K, Salmon J, Sharifi M, Downs SM. Better Guidelines and Policies: AAP's Partnership for Policy Implementation. Pediatrics. 2024 Jul 01; 154(1). PMID: 38864111.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/11/2024
Endrighi R, Henshaw M, Adams WG, Montion E, Park H, Borrelli B. The Longitudinal Reciprocal Relationships of Tooth Brushing Behaviors Between Underserved Children and Their Caregivers. Ann Behav Med. 2024 Apr 11; 58(5):353-362. PMID: 38489828.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/5/2024
Adams WG, Gasman S, Beccia AL, Fuentes L. The Health Equity Explorer: An open-source resource for distributed health equity visualization and research across common data models. J Clin Transl Sci. 2024; 8(1):e72. PMID: 38690224.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/29/2024
Deo AJ, Castro VM, Baker A, Carroll D, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Henderson DC, Holt DJ, Hook K, Karmacharya R, Roffman JL, Madsen EM, Song E, Adams WG, Camacho L, Gasman S, Gibbs JS, Fortgang RG, Kennedy CJ, Lozinski G, Perez DC, Wilson M, Reis BY, Smoller JW. Validation of an ICD-code-based case definition for psychotic illness across three health systems. medRxiv. 2024 Feb 29. PMID: 38464074.
Read at: PubMed
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