James M. Adams MD

Dr. Adams primary interests are neonatal cardiopulmonary care and NICU process management. He is the former Medical Director of the Newborn Center, Neonatal Transport Team and TCH NNP Program. He continues to serve on select TCH and Neonatology Service committees.

He is involved in a long-term project, Improving Medication Safety by Learning from Experience in conjunction with co-Investigators at the VA Medical Center Houston, UT-Houston and University of Tennessee. This project involves interviewing health care professionals from three urban hospitals to determine how health professionals learn from safety-related medication events. Data from this study are being analyzed to evaluate organizational factors that determine event definitions, data collection, data analysis, and change decisions/ implementation.

His publications are as follows:
Adams JM. Blood gas and pulmonary function monitoring. In: Cloherty JP, Eichenwald EC and Stark AR (eds). Manual of Neonatal Care. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincot, Williams and Wilkins, 2012:p393-397.
Adams JM and Eichenwald EC. Mechanical ventilation in neonates. In: Rose BD (ed). Up To Date. Wellesley, MA 2011.
Bhakta KY, Adams JM and Stark AR. Chronic lung disease of infancy. In: Turcios NL and Fink RJ. Pulmonary Manifestations of Pediatric Diseases. Philadlephia:Elsevier, 2009:p1-27.
Adams JM and Stark AR. Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. In: Up To Date, Rose BD (ed), Wellesley, MA, 2011.
Adams JM, Anderson DM, Fernandes CJ, et. al.(eds). Guidelines for Acute Care of the Neonate. Ed.19, 2011-2012. Houston-Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital.