Changemakers in Family Planning: April Adams
Abortion
Awarded 2025
Changemakers in Family Planning
April Adams, MD, MS
Baylor College of Medicine
$84,000

I completed fellowship training in both maternal fetal medicine and medical genetics and am currently an assistant professor and maternal fetal medicine fellowship program director at Baylor College of Medicine in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. My clinical practice is primarily at a safety net hospital in a large urban medical center. Both my clinical and research focus are centered around identifying and eliminating disparities in care for individuals with complex pregnancies. Additionally, as the program director for our maternal fetal medicine fellowship, I am tasked to navigate the educational needs of our trainees from both a clinical and policy perspective. The complexities of providing care in both a resource limited and legally limited environment compounds disparities for our patients. I am deeply committed to leveraging my interdisciplinary training and leadership to 1) improve professional guidance regarding counseling around pregnancy management options in the setting of high-risk pregnancy and 2) broaden family planning research models to include a reproductive ethics framework that gives attention to the ways in which institutions and policies systematically marginalize groups and minimize informed decision making and intend to develop a body of research centered around identifying and eliminating disparities in care for individuals with complex pregnancies.