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Dr. Robert AdamsMBBS (1986), Grad. Cert. Health Economics (1994), FRACP (1995), MD (1999). Robert Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Campus, The University of Adelaide, and is a practicing Respiratory Physician. Dr. Adams has experience in maintaining an adult asthma cohort during his doctoral work on the psychosocial and quality of life aspects of asthma, and expertise in measuring psychosocial variables as they relate to asthma. He has post-graduate qualifications in health economics and statistics, and extensive experience in epidemiological and statistical analysis. He has experience in conducting randomised controlled trials in asthma management in Australia , and also with the Pediatric Asthma Care-Patient Outcomes Research and Treatment Trial (PAC-PORT II) in the U.S, which examined strategies for the implementation of national guidelines for asthma management. Dr. Adams has studied at the Harvard School of Public Health in the field of continuous quality improvement methods in healthcare and factors that impact on physician performance, including systems for safety and quality in health care. He is currently a member of the South Australian Hospitals Safety and Quality Council and is Chair of the Metropolitan Clinical Sub-committee of the Council. In this role he is responsible for developing strategies to implement continuous quality improvement and evidence-based health care with particular focus on physician behaviour and improving systems to facilitate evidence-based care. He is the project sponsor for the "Safe use of anticoagulants in SA hospital" project. This is a collaborative project between Adelaide hospitals to use innovative ways to implement safe practice in using warfarin and heparin and for thromboembolic prophylaxis. He is also a team member of the Incident Reporting Improvement Study, a collaborative project in a number of SA metropolitan and country hospitals to analyse barriers to incident reporting by clinicians, and trial a variety of methods to facilitate incident and near-miss reporting, along with causal analysis of incidents and system changes to reduce error potential. He is a member of the Clinical Data . This is a collaborative group of workers at TQEH and the Royal Adelaide Hospital studying methodology to collate, aggregate, develop models and utilise data available in hospital systems to be used in clinical settings for promoting and monitoring practice change. Awards: Dr. Adams was a finalist in the Young Investigator Award at the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting, and was awarded the prestigious TSANZ/Allen & Hanbury's Respiratory Research Fellowship to study in the U.S. PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS /INVITATIONS:From the period of 1999 until the present, Robert Adams has published over 20 scientific papers and book chapters in national and international journals. A further 6 papers are in review, including " Runciman WB, Roughead EE, Semple SJ, Adams RJ. Adverse Drug Events and Medication Errors in Australia ". He is a reviewer for international refereed journals, including the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Respirology, and The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , and for grants for the National Heart Foundation, Victorian Asthma Foundation, and Asthma Western Australia . MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES/ORGANISATIONSMember, South Australian Hospitals Safety and Quality Council ; Chair, Metropolitan Clinical sub-committee, SA Hospitals Safety and Quality Council Member, Clinical Governance Committee, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Chair, Quality in Clinical Care Group, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Member, Hospital Home Pathways Steering Committee, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
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