David B. Adams (born 1950) is an American physician who is a Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Surgery and Co-Director of the Digestive Disease Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.
He has given numerous presentations regarding his clinical interests and will host the Chronic Pancreatitis Symposium in 2014 on Kiawah Island.
A Navy junior, he was raised in Newport, Rhode Island, Arlington, Virginia, and Paris, France.
Adams was named a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1969.
Three years later, he joined the faculty in the department of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina.