Aileen Kirkpatrick Adams (born 5 September 1923) is a British retired consultant anaesthetist.
Adams worked as a junior anaesthetist at Addenbrooke's Hospital from 1946 to 1951; as a senior registrar in Bristol from 1952 to 1955; a fellow in anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1955 to 1957; as a locum consultant in Oxford from 1958 to 1959; as a senior lecturer at Lagos University Medical School from 1963 to 1964, and was appointed a consultant anaesthetist back at Addenbrooke' from 1960 to 1984.
[2] She was dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons (later the Royal College of Anaesthetists) from 1985 to 1988.
[2] She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA).
Adams, Aileen; Blythe, Max (2001).