Department / Division:
Medicine / General Internal Medicine

Address:
DUMC 3022
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-660-6746

Office Telephone:
919-660-6746

Fax Telephone:
919-684-0607

• MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1976

• Internal Medicine, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, 1976-1980

• MA, Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts), 1972

Clinical Interests:
Patient-centered primary care, evidence-based internal medicine, general medical care for adults

Research Interests:
My focus has been at the interface of clinical research within the practice of general internal medicine, measuring interventions to improve the burden of chronic illness.  I have assisted studies in many areas including depression, osteoarthritis, and vascular disease.

A special emphasis involves clinical informatics and the impact of emerging technologies on information.  In 2005 my EBM colleagues conducted a study of a PubMed (Medline) interface using a tool for a "problem-focused question."  In 2006 I was an author of a paper reviewing the use of information technology in infectious diseases.  Currently I am the PI for a telegenetics project sponsored by the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  We are establishing telemedicine cancer genetic counseling in 4 rural cancer clinics in N.C.  In addition, in 2009 I joined the research team with Dr. Hayden Bosworth, an American Heart Association sponsored project to measure a tailored intervention using home monitoring and web-based technology, Microsoft HealthVault for patients who previously experienced a heart attack.

Medical students and residents work with me along several studies, for example, leveraging learning style and the usefulness of archiving lectures to iTunes.  Another is an evaluation study to learn features that best forward adoption of information technology by healthcare professionals.

Representative Publications:
Bosworth HB, Olsen MK, Neary A, Orr M, Grubber J, Svetkey L, Adams M, Oddone EZ. Take Control of Your Blood Pressure (TCYB) study: a multifactorial tailored behavioral and educational intervention for achieving blood pressure control. Patient Educ Couns. 2008 Mar;70(3):338-47. (2008)

Schardt C, Adams MB, Owens T, Keitz S, Fontelo P. Utilization of the PICO framework to improve searching PubMed for clinical questions. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2007;7:16. (2007) Abstract

Bosworth HB, Olsen MK, Neary A, Orr M, Grubber J, Svetkey LP, Adams M, Oddone EZ. Take Control of Your Blood pressure (TCYB) study: A multifactorial tailored behavioral and educational intervention for achieving blood pressure control. Patient Educat Counsel. 2007 Dec [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 18164894 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher].   (2007)

Bosworth HB, Olsen MK, Dudley T, Orr M, Neary A, Harrelson M, Adams M, Svetkey LP, Dolor RJ, Oddone EZ. The Take Control of Your Blood pressure (TCYB) study: Study design and methodology. Contemp Clin Trials. 2007 Jan;28(1):33-47. (2007) Abstract

Drew RH, Kawamoto K, Adams MB. Information technology for optimizing the management of infectious diseases. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006 May 15;63(10):957-65. (2006) Abstract

Kosecki SM, Rodgers PT, Adams MB. Glycemic monitoring in diabetics with sickle cell plus beta-thalassemia hemoglobinopathy. Ann Pharmacother. 2005 Sep;39(9):1557-60. (2005) Abstract

Kim JW, Bosworth HB, Voils CI, Olsen M, Dudley T, Gribbin M, Adams M, Oddone EZ. How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard? J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Jul;20(7):647-9. (2005) Abstract