Charles Adams

Dr. Charles Adams, Jr. is Professor of Surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Chief of the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Rhode Island Hospital (RIH). Following an undergraduate education in pharmacy at St. John’s University, he attended New Jersey Medical School and graduated with Honors. During his residency he completed a basic science research fellowship studying the gut hypothesis of multi-system organ failure. His surgical residency in a high-volume penetrating Trauma Center sparked his interest in Acute Care Surgery and led to advanced fellowship training in Surgical Critical Care at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been Chief of Trauma at RIH, the busiest trauma center in New England, since 2007. His main focus is on Trauma Care, but he is also an active ICU physician, emergency and elective general surgeon, administrator, investigator, and teacher. Nationally, he sits on several committees for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and is the sitting Treasurer of the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society and Region Chief for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.