Meet Our Team

Dr. Adams is a quadruple board-certified physician specializing in internal medicine, pulmonary, critical care, and neurocritical care. His educational background includes a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine with additional training in residency and fellowship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Dr. Adams also has certification in ACLS/BLS/ENLS and is further certified in EEG.

In addition to Chair of AtlantiCare’s IRB, Dr. Adams is Attending Physician of Neuro ICU and MICU, Medical Director of Neurosciences and Neuro ICU, Chairman of Neuroscience Peer Review Committee. He is Medical Director of Quality at Select Specialty Hospital, and Attending Pulmonary Physician at the same hospital. Additionally, he has held significant positions at previous medical institutions, contributing as a Co-Director of Critical Care and Chair of Critical Care Committees.

Dr. Adams has commitment to medical research as evidenced by publications in esteemed journals, focusing on rare cases and critical care scenarios. Dr. Adams holds faculty appointments as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, where he also serves as the ICU Clerkship Director for the Geisinger AtlantiCare Hub.

Dr. Adams’ multifaceted expertise, combined with leadership roles and a commitment to education and research, underscores his invaluable contributions to the medical field and dedication to advancing patient care and medical knowledge.  He is dedicated to being an asset to the institutional research board as well as a resource and mentor for new researchers.

Christine has contributed to AtlantiCare’s success for more than 15 years. After working as a Clinical Outreach Coordinator she joined the Research Department as our Administative Research Assistant.  She provides guidance and support for all researchers in navigating the process of submitting research study applications to our Institutional Review Board (IRB).  

In addition she has helped to create the database that we depend on for the IRB members’ review of all submitted applications and documents.

Jackie White RN, BSN, MS, CCRC has been an active and engaged clinical research coordinator since 1993. She graduated from Helene Fuld Nursing School in 1993 with a diploma in Nursing. She resumed her education in 2008 and earned her BSN from Thomas Jefferson University and finally earned her master’s in science from Drexel University in December of 2018 focusing her studies on Clinical Research Organization and Management (CROM). Jackie also maintains her certification as a clinical research coordinator since 2005. Her career began with urology clinical trials as a main focus then eventually turned to a cardiac focus.

Jackie began her career with AtlantiCare in 2005 as a clinical research coordinator hired to coordinator multiple studies with a variety of disciplines. Jackie has served on the AtlantiCare Institutional Review Board since 2005 and continues to be an active participant on the board to this day. In 2008 she was certified in Pathways to Leadership program and in 2018 she was awarded an AtlantiCare’s customer service award. She also served as a member of the ARMC Research Council, past attendee and planner for previous research day programs and participant in evidence-based practice program development through the ARMC Research Council from 2005 – 2017.

Jackie enjoys family vacations at her home in Naples, Florida and weekends at the shore in Sea Isle City.

From childhood Alison showed interest in research science. She chose nursing as a means to that end, earning a Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree from Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY in 1995. To Alison, the most significant aspect of bedside nursing is the transformation that takes place there--theoretical science becomes practical, tangible healing at the bedside. Her career with AtlantiCare began in the Emergency Department (ED) of the City Campus in 1996 and also has extensive critical care and peri-operative nursing experience. 

In 2001 she became a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) through Rutgers University and worked closely with the Atlantic County Prosecutors Office in that role.  In 2010 she completed a Certificate in Legal Nurse Consulting through University of Delaware and opined independently on cases involving healthcare litigation and product liability throughout the United States. Her work in the legal field highlighted the impact of research on defining the standard of care for Alison.  She then joined the Clinical Research Department in 2014.  Alison most enjoys being part of the research today that drives the standard of care for tomorrow.  In 2019 she was awarded an AtlantiCare iCARE award for New Knowledge, Innovation and Improvements. In both 2020 and 2021, Alison served as a sub-investigator on award-winning research projects in anticoagulation therapy with students from Geisigner Commonwealth School of Medicine.

Alison loves a good mystery, raising her pet rabbits, Philadelphia Wings lacrosse, and “glamping” with her husband and son in their RV up and down the East Coast.