About me
Dr. Adams serves as Division Chief for Palliative Care within the Department of Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH). Prior to joining Medstar Georgetown, Dr. Adams was associate director for inpatient consult services in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY, where she also completed her Palliative Medicine fellowship. Dr. Adams is a graduate of the Boston University Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program in Boston, MA and received her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Adams is deeply committed to interdisciplinary team work, which is core to the structure of high-quality palliative care and is very proud to lead a team at Georgetown with representation from nursing, social work, medicine, and pharmacy. Dr. Adams holds a BA from Swarthmore College in English Literature.
Clinical areas of focus
- Advance Care Planning
- Advance Directives Discussion
- Artificial Nutrition And Hydration Discussion
- Curative To Palliative Care Transition
- Hospice And Palliative Care For Cancer Patients
- Palliative Care
- Palliative Care For Symptom Management
- Patient And Family End Of Life Care Support
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Advance Care Planning
- Advance Directives Discussion
- Artificial Nutrition And Hydration Discussion
- Curative To Palliative Care Transition
- Hospice And Palliative Care For Cancer Patients
- Palliative Care
- Palliative Care For Cancer Symptoms
- Palliative Care For Symptom Management
- Palliative Care Management Of Delirium
- Patient And Family End Of Life Care Support
Practice locations
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201 East University Parkway Baltimore, MD, 21218
410-554-2000miles away
3800 Reservoir Road Northwest Washington, DC, 20007
202-444-2000miles away
7503 Surratts Road Clinton, MD, 20735
301-868-8000miles away
5601 Loch Raven Boulevard Baltimore, MD, 21239
443-444-8000miles away
3001 South Hanover Street Baltimore, MD, 21225
410-350-3200miles away
25500 Point Lookout Road Leonardtown, MD, 20650
301-475-8981miles away
9000 Franklin Square Drive Baltimore, MD, 21237
443-777-7000miles away
18101 Prince Philip Drive Olney, MD, 20832
301-774-8882miles away
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2013)
Residency: Boston Medical Center (2012)
Medical School: INSTITUTION NOT PRESENT (2008)