David B. Adams, M.D. (born 1950) is Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Surgery and Co-Director of the Digestive Disease Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. Adams is recognized as an expert in chronic pancreatitis surgeries and has been published over 100 times. He has given over 100 presentations regarding his clinical interests and will host the Chronic Pancreatitis Symposium in 2014 on Kiawah Island.
Adams was born in 1950 in Annapolis, Maryland at the U.S. Naval Academy. A Navy junior, he was raised in Newport, Rhode Island, Arlington, Virginia, and Paris, France. Adams was named a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1969. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Chapel Hill in 1973 and then went on to attain his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia in 1977.
After completing his internship and residency in surgery in 1982 at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, he was named Chief of Surgery at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (where he was the only surgeon). In 1983, he returned to the continental United States and was named Chief of Surgery at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina. Three years later, he joined the faculty in the department of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina.
President of the Waring Library Society
President of the South Carolina Surgical Society
President of the South Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons
Councilor of the Southeastern Surgical Society
Governor of the American College of Surgeons
Vice-President of the Halsted Society
Second Vice-President of the Southern Surgical Association
American College of Surgeons
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
Southeastern Surgical Congress
Pancreas Club
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
International Society for Digestive Surgery
Surgical Biology Club III
Societe Internationale de Chirurgie
Southern Surgical Association
American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
International Association of Pancreatology
Halsted Society
American Surgical Association
Morgan, K. A.; Theruvath, T.; Owczarski, S.; Adams, D. B. (2012). "Total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation for chronic pancreatitis: Do patients with prior pancreatic surgery have different outcomes?". The American surgeon. 78 (8): 893–896. PMID 22856498.
Morgan, K.; Owczarski, S. M.; Borckardt, J.; Madan, A.; Nishimura, M.; Adams, D. B. (2011). "Pain Control and Quality of Life After Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis". Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 16 (1): 129–133; discussion 133–4. PMID 22042566. doi:10.1007/s11605-011-1744-y.
Blum, C.; Adams, D. (2011). "Who did the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy?". Journal of Minimal Access Surgery. 7 (3): 165–168. PMC 3193755 . PMID 22022097. doi:10.4103/0972-9941.83506.
Leppard, W. M.; Adams, D. B.; Morgan, K. A. (2011). "Tailgut cysts: What is the best surgical approach?". The American surgeon. 77 (8): E160–E161. PMID 21944500.
Adams, D. B. (2011). "Especially dangerous and therefore anxious operations". Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960). 146 (6): 732–733. PMID 21830340. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2011.110.
Morgan, K. A.; Nishimura, M.; Uflacker, R.; Adams, D. B. (2011). "Percutaneous transhepatic islet cell autotransplantation after pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis: A novel approach". HPB. 13 (7): 511–516. PMC 3133718 . PMID 21689235. doi:10.1111/j.1477-2574.2011.00332.x.
Leppard, W. M.; Shary, T. M.; Adams, D. B.; Morgan, K. A. (2011). "Choledochoduodenostomy: Is It Really So Bad?". Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 15 (5): 754–757. PMID 21347871. doi:10.1007/s11605-011-1465-2.
Theruvath, T. P.; Morgan, K. A.; Adams, D. B. (2010). "Mucinous cystic neoplasms of the pancreas: How much preoperative evaluation is needed?". The American surgeon. 76 (8): 812–817. PMID 20726409.
Ellis, C. T.; Barbour, J. R.; Shary, T. M.; Adams, D. B. (2010). "Pancreatic cyst: Pseudocyst or neoplasm? Pitfalls in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography diagnosis". The American surgeon. 76 (7): 725–730. PMID 20698379.
Morgan, K. A.; Fontenot, B. B.; Harvey, N. R.; Adams, D. B. (2010). "Revision of anastomotic stenosis after pancreatic head resection for chronic pancreatitis: Is it futile?". HPB. 12 (3): 211–216. PMC 2889274 . PMID 20590889. doi:10.1111/j.1477-2574.2009.00154.x.
Morgan, K. A.; Adams, D. B. (2010). "Solid Tumors of the Body and Tail of the Pancreas". Surgical Clinics of North America. 90 (2): 287–307. PMID 20362787. doi:10.1016/j.suc.2009.12.009.
Morgan, K.; Mansker, D.; Adams, D. B. (2010). "Not Just for Trauma Patients: Damage Control Laparotomy in Pancreatic Surgery". Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 14 (5): 768–772. PMID 20224981. doi:10.1007/s11605-010-1186-y.
Dixon, J. A.; Morgan, K. A.; Adams, D. B. (2009). "Management of common bile duct injury during partial gastrectomy". The American surgeon. 75 (8): 719–721. PMID 19725297.
Morgan, K. A.; Fontenot, B. B.; Ruddy, J. M.; Mickey, S.; Adams, D. B. (2009). "Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography gut perforations: When to wait! When to operate!". The American surgeon. 75 (6): 477–483; discussion 483–4. PMID 19545095.
