Adam Burrows

Adam Burrows

Medical Director
Adam Burrows, MD, has been medical director of Upham's PACE, a program of Upham's Community Care, since its inception in 1996 and has guided its expansion to three PACE centers serving the city of Boston. He also served as senior medical director at Commonwealth Care Alliance, where he oversaw the growth of its Massachusetts Senior Care Options (SCO) program to over 7,000 members statewide. He has been active nationally in promoting and supporting integrated models of community-based care for older adults who are frail and have disabilities. He was chair of the NPA Medical Leadership Committee, editor of the PACE Medical Director's Handbook, a health services consultant for the Rural PACE Project, and member of the NPA Board of Directors, where he was the first physician to serve as chair. He developed and chairs the Rural PACE Ethics Committee and is a longstanding member of the Massachusetts PACE Ethics Committee. A graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he completed his medical residency at Boston City Hospital, chief residency at the Boston VA Medical Center, and geriatric fellowship at the Harvard Division on Aging. He is a member of the Boston University Geriatrics faculty and assistant professor of medicine at the Chobadian and Avedsian School of Medicine, where he twice received an Excellence in Teaching Award for community-based faculty.