William G. Adams, MD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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.

Publications

  • Published 5/1/2025

    Simione M, Wagner S, Kistin CJ, Egan KA, Kelly S, Adams WG, Taveras EM, Hur C. Estimated Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of a Pediatric Weight Management Program. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 May 01; 8(5):e2510087. PMID: 40366655.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 4/6/2025

    Hong X, Morgenlander WR, Nadeau K, Wang G, Frischmeyer-Guerrerio PA, Pearson C, Adams WG, Ji H, Larman HB, Wang X. Maternal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and epitope level antibody response to vaccines against measles and rubella in children from the Boston birth cohort. Environ Int. 2025 Apr; 198:109433. PMID: 40215916.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/28/2025

    Tilhou AS, Gasman S, Wang J, Standish K, White LF, Cogan A, Devlin M, Larochelle M, Adams WG. Assessing inequities in buprenorphine treatment across the care cascade. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2025 May 01; 270:112636. PMID: 40043350.

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  • Published 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.

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  • Published 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.

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Other Positions

  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
    Boston University

Websites

Education

  • Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, MD
  • Harvard University, BA

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