ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Adewole (Ade) S. Adamson, MD, MPP, is an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine (Division of Dermatology) at Dell Medical School (DMS) at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his medical degree with honors from Harvard where he also completed a master’s in public policy as a Zuckerman Fellow in the Center for Public Leadership. Dr. Adamson completed residency in dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern in 2015, followed by 3 years as an instructor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the faculty as a tenure track assistant professor at DMS in 2018, where he is the director of the Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Clinic.
Dr. Adamson is a health services researcher whose research program focuses on addressing both underuse and overuse of health care. His work in addressing health disparities in the treatment and prevention of melanoma within vulnerable populations has been supported by grants from the Dermatology Foundation and the American Cancer Society. Dr. Adamson’s work on overuse in health care has focused on understanding the scope and potential harms of overdiagnosis, which has been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.