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Th. March 26, 8AM, “Why Doctors Support Single Payer,” Grand Rounds, Garrett Adams, MD, MPH, ACB Bldg., 550 S. Jackson
March 26, 2015 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Grand Rounds: “Why Doctors Support Single Payer”
Presented by Garrett Adams, M.D., M.P.H.
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 8:00 AM
Auditorium, Lower Level
Ambulatory Care Bldg.
550 S. Jackson
U of L Health Sciences Campus
Louisville
Sponsored by: Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Grand Rounds function to share educational information within the medical community.
The events are open to the public.
Abbreviated Bio of Garrett Adams, M.D., M.P.H.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee
Training:
B.A., M.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
M.D., Wake Forest School of Medicine (Bowman Gray)
Pediatric Residency, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Master of Public Health (Epidemiology), Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health (Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Selective Service:
Pediatrician, Pine Ridge Indian Hospital, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Personal: Married, four children, and nine grandchildren
Dr. Adams is a specialist in Infectious Diseases of Children and Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
He is recently retired from the full-time faculty of the University of Louisville School of Medicine where he was Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Communicable Diseases at the Louisville Metro Health Department.
For forty years he attended the health care needs of sick children and their young families. During his career he witnessed deterioration in health care access and health care delivery in the United States and now is working for health care reform. He is Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program (www.PNHP.org).