David B. Adams

David B. Adams (born 1950) is an American physician who is a 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 specializes in chronic pancreatitis surgeries. He has given numerous presentations regarding his clinical interests and will host the Chronic Pancreatitis Symposium in 2014 on Kiawah Island.

Biography
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.

Appointments

 * 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

Memberships

 * 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