Dr. William Adelman is the Division Director of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City, and is board certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Adelman is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri Kansas City and has published on varied interests including quality adolescent health care, adolescent risk behavior, tobacco use and cessation, and marijuana. He has served on numerous national committees including the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine subcommittee on Alcohol and other Drugs (chair), the Department of Defense/Veterans Administration committee on tobacco use cessation, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adolescence. Dr. Adelman is a retired United States Army Colonel, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn, and previously served as the adolescent medicine consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army.
