William G. Adams, MD
Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Pediatrics
General Pediatrics

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



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.

Member
Boston University
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research




The Boston University Clinical and Transitional Science Institute
04/15/2020 - 03/31/2025 (Key Person)
PI: Megan H. Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE
NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
5UL1TR001430-09

University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute
06/01/2019 - 05/31/2021 (Subcontract PI)
The University of Pittsburgh NIH NCATS
5UL1TR001857-05

Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (Administrative Supplement)
07/06/2020 - 03/31/2021 (Multi-PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
3UL1TR001430-05A1S1

University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute
06/01/2018 - 05/31/2019 (Subcontract PI)
The University of Pittsburgh NIH NCATS
5UL1TR001857-03

University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute
06/01/2017 - 05/31/2018 (Subcontract PI)
The University of Pittsburgh NIH NCATS
5UL1TR001857-02

Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program UL1
05/01/2012 - 04/30/2014 (Co-Investigator of Sub-Project / SP)
PI: David M. Center, MD
NIH/National Center for Health Research Resources
8UL1TR000157-05

Improving ADHD Care with Information Technology
04/01/2000 - 03/31/2003 (PI)
NIH/National Library of Medicine
5 F38 LM00087 03


Autism Longitudinal Data Project
09/01/2022 - 08/31/2027 (Subcontract PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
Johns Hopkins University HHS HRSA MCHB

Immune Development across the Life Course: Integrating Exposures and Multi-Omics in the Boston Birth Cohort
09/15/2022 - 06/30/2027 (Subcontract PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
Johns Hopkins University NIH NIEHS

Implementation Of Childhood Obesity Treatment Innovations to Improve Outcomes of Low-Income Children: The Connect for Health II Study
07/01/2019 - 06/30/2025 (Multi-PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
The General Hospital Corporation / MGH NIH NHLBI
5R01HL146782-05

Preterm Birth and Child Long-term Cardiometanolic Risk: Integrate Proteomics with Birth Cohort
04/01/2022 - 03/31/2025 (Subcontract PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
Johns Hopkins University NIH
5R01HD041702-18

PaTH to Health : PCORnet Clinical Research Network
07/10/2023 - 12/31/2024 (Subcontract PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
University of Pittsburgh Patient-Cntr (PCORI)

Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS): COVID-19 Registry Society and CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory (CDRC)
11/01/2021 - 09/30/2023 (PI)
Society of Critical Care Medicine

Early life origins of ASD: Role of maternal and cord blood metabolome, placental
09/01/2018 - 08/31/2022 (Multi-PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
Johns Hopkins University HHS HRSA

Preterm Birth, Maternal and Cord Blood Metabolome, and Child Metabolic Risk
05/03/2016 - 03/31/2022 (Multi-PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
Johns Hopkins University NIH
5R01HD041702-16

Scalable Collaborative Infrastructure for a Learning Healthcare System
04/14/2014 - 04/30/2019 (Subcontract PI)
PI: William G. Adams, MD
Harvard University Patient-Cntr (PCORI)

Longitudinal Histories as Predictors of Future Suicide Events
07/01/2017 - 09/30/2018 (PI)
Mass General Hosp The Tommy Fuss Fund

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2024 Research and Data Analysis Core (RDAC) 1P30HS029752-01-7505
2022 The New England Precision Medicine Consortium of the All of Us Research Program 3OT2OD026553-01S4
2010 Massachusetts Health Disparities Monitoring System 5RC2HL101628-02 2
2009 Massachusetts Health Disparities Monitoring System 1RC2HL101628-01 2
2009 Conversational IT for Better, Safer Pediatric Primary Care 5R18HS017248-03 2
2008 Conversational IT for Better, Safer Pediatric Primary Care 5R18HS017248-02 2
2007 Conversational IT for Better, Safer Pediatric Primary Care 1R18HS017248-01 2
2006 IT-Supported Early Treatment of Childhood Overweight 5R21HD050939-02 2
2006 Using an EMR to Improve Urban Child Health 5K02HS013655-03
2005 IT-Supported Early Treatment of Childhood Overweight 1R21HD050939-01 2
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  1. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39121932
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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 May 10.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38728421
     
  4. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38489828
     
  5. 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; PMCID: PMC11058576; DOI: 10.1017/cts.2024.500;
     
  6. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38464074; PMCID: PMC10925367; DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.28.24303443;
     
  7. Madlock-Brown C, Lee A, Seltzer J, Solomonides A, Mathews N, Phuong J, Weiskopf N, Adams WG, Lehmann H, Espinoza J. Racial Disparities in Diabetes Care and Outcomes for Patients with Visual Impairment: A Descriptive Analysis of the TriNetX Research Network. Res Sq. 2024 Jan 30. PMID: 38352357; PMCID: PMC10862972; DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3901158/v1;
     
  8. Osula V, Rusk S, Hao L, Hansoti B, Gemmill A, Hong X, Wang G, Pearson C, Adams WG, Wang X. Prospective Cohort Study of Emergency Department Visit Frequency and Diagnoses Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban, Low-Income, US- and Foreign-Born Mothers in Boston, MA. West J Emerg Med. 2023 Nov; 24(6):1117-1127. PMID: 38165194; PMCID: PMC10754186; DOI: 10.5811/westjem.59639;
     
  9. Si J, Meir AY, Hong X, Wang G, Huang W, Pearson C, Adams WG, Wang X, Liang L. Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation, and childhood obesity: findings from the Boston Birth Cohort. BMC Med. 2023 Aug 23; 21(1):317. PMID: 37612641; PMCID: PMC10463574; DOI: 10.1186/s12916-023-03003-5;
     
  10. Hevel DJ, Henshaw M, Endrighi R, Adams WG, Heeren T, Jankowski A, Borrelli B. The differential predictive utility of two caregiver-targeted self-efficacy measures to promote oral health of underserved children. Health Psychol. 2023 Oct; 42(10):735-745.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37307330; PMCID: PMC10524688; DOI: 10.1037/hea0001308;
     
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Bar chart showing 100 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2022

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