Adewole Adamson, MD, MPP
Adewole Adamson, MD, MPP
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Adewole (Ade) Adamson is a board-certified dermatologist and assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School (DMS) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in improving the quality of care delivered to patients with skin disorders.
Dr. Adamson is a health services researcher whose work involves understanding patterns of health care utilization including overuse and underuse in dermatology. He is passionate about health care disparities, access to specialty health care, and health care costs. He speaks nationally about health care quality, value, and the application of evidence-based medicine within dermatology.
Dr. Adamson is a proud graduate of Morehouse College where he received a BS in Biology and French. He later earned an MD with honors at Harvard Medical School as part of the Health Sciences and Technology Program with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While in medical school he spent a year conducting basic science research in immunology at the National Institutes of Health and later earned a Master in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School as a Zuckerman Fellow in the Center for Public Leadership.
He completed his internship in internal medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital followed by residency training in dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, TX, where he was recognized with awards for his professionalism, leadership and community service work. He was on previously on faculty at the University of North Carolina before moving to DMS.