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Eric Adkins, MD (Chief Fellow)
Eric is originally from Lewiston, NY, but later settled in Clarksburg, WV at the age of 6. He went to college at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV and obtained two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Chemistry and Biology, graduating magna cum laude in 1998. He attended medical school at WVU for the first two years in Morgantown, and then chose to go to the Charleston, WV campus at Charleston Area Medical Center for his clinical training years. He graduated in 2002 and served as president of his graduating class. He went on to Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE for a 5 year combined residency in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, where he served as president of the hospital house staff and Chief Resident and completed training in 2007. He came to The Ohio State University Medical Center for pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship and is now in his third and final year serving as chief fellow. During his first year of fellowship he won the Robert J. Fass award from the residents in the Department of Internal Medicine given to the clinical fellow who best demonstrates the attributes of an outstanding physician consultant.
He holds board certifications in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. His clinical and research interests are derived from a mix of emergency medicine and critical care. His interests are in resuscitation medicine, the delivery of critical care in the ED, and the use of bedside physician ultrasound in settings outside the ED, particularly in the ICU. He currently sits on the Code Blue Committee at OSUMC and has national appointments to the Members in Transition and Training Committee and the Research Advocacy Committee for the American Thoracic Society. He is also a member of the Public Relations Committee for the America College of Emergency Physicians.
He currently resides in Grove City, OH with his wife, Leah Adkins MD and his dog, Fenway. Leah is an obstetrics and gynecology physician at Berger Medical Center in Circleville, Ohio. He is an avid sports fan who enjoys WVU sports, Boston Red Sox baseball, and now Buckeye football.
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