Jennifer Adams is an Associate Professor of Medicine, an Associate Program Director of the NYUSOM Internal Medicine Residency, the Director of the NYUSOM Primary Care Residency Tract, and a preceptor and Attending Physician at Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center. She also serves as the Chief of the Section of Empathy within the NYUGSoM Institute for Innovations in Medical Education and as a coach and advisor in the NYUGSoM Violet Society.

Prior to taking on these roles, she created and directed the Patient Based Longitudinal Ambulatory Clinical Experience (P.L.A.C.E.) for NYU medical students, served as the co-director of the NYUSOM Internal Medicine Student Summer fellowship and was integral in the incorporation of the NYU Macy 3T web-based, interactive IPE curriculum. Additionally, she helped develop and implement the TOSH oral/systemic health longitudinal IPE experience for NYU medical, dental and nursing students. She also served as the PI on a Doctors Across New York Training Grant that aimed to increase primary care training within free standing ambulatory clinics.

Dr. Adams is a graduate of Bowdoin College and completed the Post- Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program at Columbia University. She received her MD from NYU Medical School and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at NYU as part of the Primary Care track.