Infectious Disease Epidemiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: David P. Adams

Address: * ******* **** **

Savannah, GA 31419

Phone: 912-***-**** (home)

Education:

Emory University, B.A. (History and Religion), 1980

Washington University in St. Louis, A.M. (History), 1982

University of Florida, Ph.D. (History and Sociology of Medicine),

1987

Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Studies toward completion of M.Div.),

1988-1991

The Ohio State University College of Medicine, M.P.H. (Concentration

in Epidemiology), 1994

Louisiana State University Medical Center (Post-graduate studies in

Tropical Medicine and Parasitology), 1994

McGill University (Post-graduate work in Epidemiology and

Biostatistics), 1995

University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Post-graduate work in

Parasitology, Epidemiology, and Microbiology), 1998

University of Alabama-Birmingham (Post-graduate work in Epidemiology

of Infectious Disease), 2002

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Post-graduate

diploma in Infectious Diseases), 2007

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MSc. (Infectious

Diseases), 2009

University of Georgia, (Post-graduate studies in Gerontology), 2013

Language Ability:

Good working knowledge of spoken and written Spanish, very good

working knowledge of written French, good working knowledge of written

Italian

International Experience:

Colombia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Jamaica

Awards:

Distinguished Teaching Award, Columbus State Community College, 1990

Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Scholars), 1996

NIH Travel Award, 1990

Medical Humanities Fellow, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1992

Professional Duties:

. Mentoring medical students in community health rotations

. Teaching undergraduate, graduate, and medical students

o Courses Taught: Epidemiology, Advanced Epidemiology,

Environmental Health, Introduction to the Disease Continuum,

Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Zoonotic and Arthropod-Borne

Disease Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology, and Research Methods

. Mentoring undergraduate, graduate, and medical student research

Academic Appointments:

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical

College of Georgia, 2005-present

Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Armstrong State

University, 2001-present

Research Associate, Department of Exercise Science, University of

Tennessee-Knoxville, 2000-2001

Research Associate, Bureau of Evaluation and Research, College of

Education, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2000-2001

Senior Researcher, Community Health Research Group, University of

Tennessee-Knoxville, 1999

Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of

Tennessee-Knoxville, 1998-2001

Director, Community Assessment and Planning, Knox County Health

Department, 1998-1999

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Quillen

College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, 1998-present

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina-

Charlotte, 1998

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Quillen

College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, 1998-1999

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biology, Maryville College, Fall 1998

Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Nursing, University of

North Carolina-Charlotte, 1998

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Biology, Rowan-Cabarrus Community

College, 1997

Consulting Associate, Department of Community and Family Medicine,

Duke University, 1995-1998

Research Director, Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency Program,

Concord, NC, 1995-1998

Visiting Assistant Professor, Medical Humanities Program, Davidson

College, 1996

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Ohio State University College of

Medicine, 1995

Lecturer, Department of History, The Ohio State University Adjunct

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State

University College of Medicine, 1990-1995

Resource Faculty, Department of Community Health and Family

Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, 1984-1987

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological and Physical Sciences,

Columbus State Community College, 1994-1995

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Columbus State

Community College, 1987-1995

E-Mail: ************@*****.***

Presentations (post-2012):

Adams, D. Strangers in a Strange Land: Suicides among Her Majesty's

British Troops in India, 1862-1871. American Society of Tropical Medicine

and Hygiene 62nd Annual Meeting, (poster), Atlanta, GA, November 2013.

Adams, D and Taiwo, F. Malaria Discipline and Neurospsychiatric

Sequelae: Suicide Mortality among U.S. Troops in Vietnam, 1960-1975.

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 62nd Annual Meeting,

(poster), Atlanta, GA, November 2013.

Gerrin, C and Adams, D. Toxoplasma gondii: A Review of the Relationship

between Seropositivity and Psychiatric Morbidity. American Society of

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 62nd Annual Meeting, (poster), Atlanta, GA,

November 2013.

Neil, K and Adams, D. Clostridium difficile: An Emerging Zoonosis?

Witrick, B and Adams, D. Injectional Anthrax: An Emerging Public Health

Issue. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 62nd Annual

Meeting, (poster), Atlanta, GA, November 2013. American Society of Tropical

Medicine and Hygiene 62nd Annual Meeting, (poster), Atlanta, GA, November

2013.

Adams, D. Samuel Lapsley and William Sheppard: Missionary Medicine,

Medical Entomology, and Realpolitik in the Congo, 1890-1917. American

Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 63rd Annual Meeting, (poster), New

Orleans, LA, November 2014.

Adams, D and Mauck, D. Buried Legacy? An Analysis of Psychiatric

Toxicity of Pre-Chloroquine Antimalarials. American Society of Tropical

Medicine and Hygiene 63rd

Annual Meeting, (poster), New Orleans, LA, November 2014.

Belenchia, M and Adams, D. Onchocerca lupi: An Emerging Zoonosis in

Northern Europe and the United States? American Society of Tropical

Medicine and Hygiene 63rd

Annual Meeting, (poster), New Orleans, LA, November 2014.

Eversley, T and Adams, D. Emerging Research on Diptera as Mechanical

Vectors: The Case of Bacillus anthracis. American Society of Tropical

Medicine and Hygiene 63rd Annual Meeting, (poster), New Orleans, LA,

November 2014.

Mauck, D; DeSalvo, D; and Adams, D. Vertical Transmission of Yellow

Fever to Infants via Breastfeeding. American Society of Tropical Medicine

and Hygiene 63rd Annual Meeting, (poster), New Orleans, LA, November 2014.

Publications in Refereed Journals:

DP Adams. "The Penicillin Mystique and the Popular Press (1935-1950),"

Pharmacy in History 26 (1984): 134-142.

DP Adams. "General Practice in Rural Florida: A Case Study of an

Anomaly," Journal of the Florida Medical Association 72 (July 1985): 517-

521.

DP Adams. "The Best of Both Worlds: General Practice in Rural Florida,

1928-1950," Journal of the Florida Medical Association 73 (April 1986): 312-

316.

DP Adams. "The Evolution of the Specialty of Family Practice," Journal

of the Florida Medical Association 76 (March 1989): 325-329.

DP Adams. "Wartime Bureaucracy and Penicillin Allocation: The

Committee on Chemotherapy and Other Agents, 1942-1945," Journal of the

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 44 (April 1989): 196-217.

DP Adams. "Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis and Dental Practice, 1900-

1950," Bulletin of the History of Dentistry 38 (October 1990): 25-28.

DP Adams. "The Greatest Good to the Greatest Number: Penicillin

Allocation and the Treatment of Bacterial Endocarditis," in Andrew Griffin,

ed., Efficacy in Health Care: Essays from the First International

Conference on Justice in Health Care (October 1990): 67-78.

DP Adams. "General Practice and Rural Health Reform: The Case of

Kansas, 1948-1950," Professional Ethics 2 (1993): 59-82 (with Robert J.

Fitrakis).

DP Adams. "Community and Professional: General Practitioners and Ear,

Nose, and Throat Surgeons in Cincinnati, 1945-1947," Bulletin of the

History of Medicine 68 (1994): 664-684.

DP Adams. "Malaria, Labor, and Population Distribution in Costa Rica:

A Biohistorical Perspective," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27

(Summer 1996): 75-85.

DP Adams et al. "Hearts and Minds: Suicide among U.S. Combat Troops in

Vietnam, 1957-1973," Social Science and Medicine 47 (Fall 1998): 1689-93.

D Holland and DP Adams. "Puss Caterpillar Envenomation: A Report from

North Carolina," Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 9 (1998): 213-216.

LE Rich, J Simmons, D Adams, et al.The afterbirth of the clinic: a

Foucauldian perspective on "House M.D." and American medicine in the 21st

century. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 51 (2008): 220-37.

J Leary, D Adams, et al. "Physical Activity Levels among Preschoolers:

A Pilot Study in Central Georgia," Education and Health 26; 4 (2008): 67-

69.

T Diem; SM Edenfield; K Coulton;, David Adams, "Anxiolytic

Intervention Preference of Dental Practitioners in the Savannah, Chatham

County, Area: A Pilot Study,' Journal of Dental Hygiene (Summer 2010): 123-

128.

DP Adams and T Miles. "The application of Belmont Report principles to

policy development." Journal of Gerontolological Nursing 39 (2013): 16-21.

Books:

"The Greatest Good to the Greatest Number": Penicillin Rationing on

the American Home Front, 1940-1945, in American University Studies Series,

vol. 93 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1991).

The American Board of Family Practice: A History, 1969-1994.

(Lexington, KY: The American Board of Family Practice, 1999).

Book Chapters:

"Nicholas J. Pisacano," with Alan L. Moore, in Lois Magner, ed.,

Doctors, Nurses, and Medical Practitioners: A Bio-Bibliographical

Sourcebook (Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997).

"Nonnicotine medications for smoking cessation," with Andrew Johnston,

Mark D. Robinson, Alexander Glassman, and Lirio Covey, in Daniel F. Seidman

and Lirio S. Covey, eds., Helping the Hard-Core Smoker: A Clinician's Guide

(Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 1999).

"Low Birth Weight," in Golson, G, ed. Encyclopedia of Obesity (Sherman

Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008).

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