John Evi Adams

Background

Adams, John Evi was born on May 23, 1937 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Son of Joseph Edison and Katherine (Smith) Adams.

Education

Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1959; postgraduate, U. North Carolina, 1959-1960; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1964.

Career

Intern in medicine, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, 1964-1965; resident in psychiatry, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1965-1968; research fellow in psychiatry, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1967-1968; assistant professor psychiatry, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1970-1974; professor, department chairman psychiatry College Medicine, U. Florida, Gainseville, from 1974. Special assistant to director National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, 1968-1969, associate director manpower and training, 1969-1970. Visiting scholar Institute Psychiatry Maudsley Hospital, London, 1984-1985.

Psychiatrist-in-chief Shands Hospital, Gainesville, since 1974. Consultant VA Medical Center, Gainesville, from 1974. Senior examiner American Board Psychiatry and Neurology, Chicago, from 1979.

Achievements

• John Evi Adams has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatry educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1968-1970. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (vice chairman research council from 1984), American College Psychiatrists, Southern Psychiatric Association. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Chairman of Depts.

Psychiatry (president 1983-1984), American Psychosomatic Society.

Connections

Married Ann Carver Absalom, April 17, 1965. Children: Christopher Dylan, Gregory Carter.

Father:

Joseph Edison Adams

Mother:

Katherine (Smith) Adams

Spouse:

Ann Carver Absalom

child:

Christopher Dylan Adams

child:

Gregory Carter Adams