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David Adams, M.D., was
elected to serve as president of the
Halsted Society for the 2013 term.
 Dr. David Adams
The society is limited to 80 surgeons and
other individuals in allied branches of
medicine and membership is by invitation
only. David J. Cole, M.D., McKoy Rose
professor and chairman of the Department
of Surgery who is also a member of the
Halsted Society, said the honor is quite a
coup for MUSC and an honor for the
Department of Surgery.
"I can think of no one better suited to
lead the group's mission 'to encourage
exchange of ideas, free and informal
discussion, and a spirit of sociability
and good fellowship among its members.'
David has spent more than 25 years at MUSC
earning respect and admiration as an avid
mentor, clinical leader and champion of
the most difficult surgical cases while
brilliantly serving our profession on a
national level."
Adams served as medical director of 1W
trauma center, program director in the
General Surgery Residency training program
and is course director of MUSC's
Department of Surgery Annual Postgraduate
Course in Surgery. He is chief of the
Division of Gastrointestinal and
Laparoscopic Surgery and co-director of
the Digestive Disease Center.
His research interests center on
gastrointestinal and laparoscopic surgery,
with special interests in the surgical
management of chronic pancreatitis. He has
published more than 100 works and
presented more than 100 talks related to
his clinical interests.
Lewis Flint, M.D., in the Division of
Education for the American College of
Surgeons and who was in MUSC's Surgical
Residency Class of 1974, said that since
Adams joined MUSC's faculty in 1986, he
has built a nationally recognized
gastrointestinal surgery unit. In the
course of this growth, he has repeatedly
been recognized in Charleston and in South
Carolina for clinical and teaching
excellence.
Flint said that Adams' scholarship has
been recognized at the national level, and
this has led to election to leadership
positions in the American College of
Surgeons, the Southern Surgical
Association, and the Southeastern Surgical
Congress as well as appointment to the
editorial board of the Journal of
Gastrointestinal Surgery.
"In my opinion, David Adams is the
quintessential class act in American
academic surgery," he said. "The scholarly
contributions he has personally produced
and those he has stimulated in others are
consistently of the highest quality. These
characteristics have brought significant
additional luster to an already strong
academic surgical unit at MUSC. All of us
with a Charleston connection can be proud
of his election to the office of president
of the Halsted Society, and we wait
eagerly for the inevitable additional
honors."
Friday, Oct.
12, 2012
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