Dr. Meredith C. B. Adams MD, FASA, FAMIA

Meredith C. B. Adams, MD, MS, FASA, FAMIA is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Biomedical Informatics, Physiology & Pharmacology, and Public Health Sciences. Dr. Adams teaches and practices clinical pain medicine at Wake Forest. She completed her anesthesiology and pain medicine training/chief residency at Johns Hopkins. She is a NIH funded researcher board certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Clinical Informatics. Her research interests are novel approaches to pain education and pain biomedical informatics across several domains. She previously served as the AAPM Fellowship Excellence Award winning Program Director of the Pain Fellowship and Co-Director of the Pediatric Pain Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Additionally, she previously served as the Section Chief of Pain Medicine at the Malcom Randall VAMC. Her previous funding is in educational app development for pain medicine through FAER/SAAA and the Faye McBeath Foundations. She was previously funded by the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (K08) to study opioid response phenotypes for people with low back pain through the Mentored Clinician Scientist program. She currently serves as the co-chair of the HEAL Data Ecosystem Collective Board and member of the Board of Trustees of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).

She is currently funded by the NIH HEAL as the PI of the WF DISC (U24) as part of the NIH HEAL D2A program. She is the PI of the IDEA-CC center (R24) for the IMPOWR network's chronic pain and opioid use disorder coordination centers. She is funded by the NIH National Institute of Drug Abuse (U01) studying the economic impact of COVID on opioid use disorder. She has administrative supplements focused on OMOP conversion of HEAL CDE and machine learning/artificial intelligence in HEAL data. She is also funded by the NIH NINDS as the Informatics Lead and Site PI of a NIH HEAL Pain Clinical Trials Network and NIH NIDA R33 focused on opioid prescribing practices. She is the clinical domain lead scientist for pain, substance use, and behavioral health in the NIH NCATS N3C (National Covid Cohort Collaboration) studying the interaction of COVID-19 and PASC and is funded by the Wake Forest CTSI in this domain.