Martha Bennett Adams, MA, MD, FACP

Dr. Adams’ primary focus in informatics is mobile technology in health care. Throughout her career she has been known for innovation and for forwarding adoption of technology. As a result she has led numerous evaluation studies involving PDAs, tablets, and smartphones, those in use by medical professionals. She also has experience as the principle investigator of a recent telemedicine study sponsored by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, genetics counseling for breast cancer patients in rural North Carolina. She is best known for co-developing CustomID, a highly successful web and mobile framework for stewardship of antimicrobial prescribing in use by Duke University Hospital since 2003 and by 30 hospitals in the Netherlands since 2006, a program with oversight by the Dutch Working Group on Antibiotic Policy (SWAB). Her collaborative work in informatics has led to publications in leading journals such as the Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and Circulation.

Dr. Adams, July 2012, is newly Professor Emerita of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. She closed a highly respected clinical career in general internal medicine as the “doctor’s doctor” and an educator of medicine residents. She was elected annually to America’s Best Doctors, 2007-2012.

She continues as a member of the Duke Center for Health Informatics, the Duke School of Medicine Academic IT Committee, and she has an advisory role in a rapid learning quality improvement consortium involving palliative care. She is the AMIA Chair of the Working Group Steering Committee. Dr. Adams is on the editorial board of the journal Informatics in Primary Care. She previously served on the board of NCHICA, the North Carolina Health Information and Communications Alliance.

Dr. Adams is a national speaker and program co-developer of “Complex Cases in Primary Care”, sponsored by Duke University with Med-IQ, an award-winning continuing medical education company.