Former Indiana State Health Commissioner and the 20th U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams will joins Purdue University as a Presidential Fellow and the university’s first executive director of health equity initiatives, professor of practice in the departments of Pharmacy Practice and Public Health and a faculty member of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue.
The appointment was announced Thursday (Sept. 30) by Purdue President Mitch Daniels.