Patricia Adam, MD, MSPH

Patricia "Pita" Adam, MD, MSPH, is the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health's interim chair, inaugural holder of the Minnesota Chair in Family Medicine, and former vice chair for clinical affairs. She teaches in the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency and is also one of the founding family medicine team members on the Minnesota Primary Care Transformation Collaborative. Dr. Adam's goal is to improve the care delivered to patients and the experience of providers and staff as they serve patients. This includes an intentional focus on minoritized patients and their quality outcomes. She oversees the core family medicine residency clinics and is a member of the Primary Care Executive Team within our Primary Care Service Line. In that role, she oversees family medicine obstetrics care, is a champion for equitable care, and facilitates engagement in the Primary Care Service Line's Practice Based Research Network. Dr. Adam has published many evidence-based answers to point of care questions, a model for optimal communication teaching, team-based care, intrathecal narcotics for obstetric pain management, saline nasal spray for colds and sinusitis and most recently Clinic as Curriculum, a model with advanced scheduling options to improve provider-patient continuity and provider wellness.