Jerome Adams

Jerome Adams

Jerome Michael Adams is an anesthesiologist and a vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He currently serves as the 20th Surgeon General of the United States. Adams served as the Indiana State Health Commissioner, from 2014 to 2017.

About Jerome Adams in brief

Summary Jerome AdamsJerome Michael Adams is an American anesthesiologist and a vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He currently serves as the 20th Surgeon General of the United States. Adams served as the Indiana State Health Commissioner, from 2014 to 2017. Adams is the son of Richard and Edrena Adams of Mechanicsville, Maryland. He attended Chopticon High School, graduating in 1992, in the top 5% of his class. He then attended the University of Maryland Baltimore County through a full-tuition Meyerhoff Scholarship, a grant dedicated to minority students interested in the sciences.

Adams attended medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine as an Eli Lilly and Company Scholar. He also received a Master of Public Health degree from University of California, Berkeley, in 2000, with a focus on chronic disease prevention. Adams has written several academic papers and book chapters, including chapters in Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-based Approach, and an editorial in the American Journal of public health.