Peter Adams BSc, MBBS, MSc

Dr Peter Adams is Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus. He completed secondary school at Queens College in Guyana, received a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London and a MBBS and DM from the University of the West Indies. He attended both the Mona and Cave Hill campuses of the UWI. He is a Family Physician who after completing his internship in Trinidad has been practising medicine for over 3 decades in Barbados.

Prior to becoming Dean in 2015, he coordinated both the undergraduate and postgraduate Family Medicine programmes. He introduced a Diploma in Family Medicine by distance with doctors in several Eastern Caribbean islands enrolled. Until recently he was an associate consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and headed the General Practice Unit located at the Edgar Cochrane Polyclinic. He is a former editor of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners Bulletin, and is currently a member of the International Advisory Board, British Journal of General Practice.