Terry Adirim, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
, is a senior executive in the federal government. She has held several positions including as lead of the Electronic Health Record Modernization effort at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense where she performed the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, leading the Military Health System (MHS) and earlier served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Services Policy and Oversight, a system Chief Medical Officer role. The MHS is a large $50 billion integrated health system composed of 50 hospitals and hundreds of clinics world-wide and the TRICARE Health Plan serving 9.6 million beneficiaries. Previously, Adirim served in other senior health leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services and academic medicine. Within academic medicine, Adirim was Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Professor of Pediatrics and Chair of the Department of Integrated Medical Sciences at the Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida where she was responsible for providing leadership over the College of Medicine's clinical enterprise including providing vision, strategy and oversight of patient care, clinical translational research activities and the FAU Medicine faculty practice. She continued to practice pediatric emergency medicine for over 25 years while serving in these positions. Dr. Adirim maintains academic appointments as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Prevention Medicine and Biostatistics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Maryland. Adirim earned her M.D. with research distinction at the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine, pediatrics residency training at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship training at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC and Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship training at DeWitt Army Community Hospital in Fort Belvoir, Virginia/Children's National Medical Center.
She has more than 200 journal publications, editorials, oral presentations and invited keynote speaking engagements.