Emory University’s Jennifer Adamski to Lead the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Jennifer Adamski has been selected to lead the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the world’s largest specialty nursing organization. With 200 chapters and 130,000 members, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is dedicated to acute and critical care nursing excellence through educational opportunities, scholarships, certifications, conferences, and recognition programs.

Dr. Adamski will serve a one-year term as president-elect. She will then serve a one-year term as the 55th president of the organization from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.

Dr. Adamski is an associate professor and program director of the adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner program at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta. She is also a critical care acute care nurse practitioner for the Critical Care Flight team at Cleveland Clinic, the first in the nation to have a nurse practitioner-managed flight team.

Dr. Adamski joined the faculty at Emory University in 2014. Her areas of research include trauma prevention and system development, rapid response teams, and critical care/trauma advances in hemorrhagic shock.

A nursing graduate of Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Dr. Adamski earned a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Pittsburg and a doctor of nursing practice degree from the University of South Alabama.