Photo: Lea Grahovac ? IGSF, McGill University, Montreal
Dr. Annmarie Adams has been appointed Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. With this appointment, Dr. Adams will also become the inaugural Stevenson Chair in the Philosophy & History of Science, including Medicine.
A McGill alumna, Dr. Adams earned an Honours degree in Art History from the University in 1981. She then trained as an architect and architectural historian, graduating from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley in 1986 with a professional Master of Architecture degree and a PhD in 1992.  Her PhD dissertation began a lifelong interest in the intersections of medicine and architecture.
Dr. Adams has held a number of leadership roles at McGill since joining the University?s School of Architecture in 1990 as its first female faculty member. A champion of promoting women in academia, Dr. Adams served as Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies in the Faculty of Arts in 2010-2011. From 2011-2015, she was Director of the School of Architecture, during which time she concurrently served as Chair of the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture.  She is a longtime member of the board of curators of the Osler Library and is involved in the Maude Abbott Medical Museum. A prolific researcher, Dr. Adams has written extensively on the architectural history of medicine. Her interests cover a wide array...