Cheryl Dawn Adkinson MD, MA, FACEP
Dr. Cheryl Adkinson was born and reared in Washington State, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest region of the United States. She received her BA in Sociology from Whitman College in Washington, her MA in Child Development from the University of Iowa, and her MD from the University of Washington. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis MN. She then practiced and taught Emergency Medicine in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for two years, after which she returned to the U.S. to join the faculty of Emergency Medicine at HCMC, a Level One trauma center and inner city safety net hospital affiliated with the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Adkinson taught and practiced emergency medicine at HCMC for 34 years and served as Medical Director of the HCMC Hyperbaric Medicine program for approximately three decades. She has co-authored 19 peer-reviewed publications in Emergency Medicine and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine during her career. She achieved the academic rank of Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota, served as an examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine for 10 years, and is a Lifetime Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine. She has been a member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society her entire career and served 4 years on its Executive Committee. She developed an ACGME approved fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and served as Program Director for that fellowship for 5 years.
Dr. Adkinson stepped away from her Emergency Medicine faculty position at HCMC in June of 2014. Since leaving HCMC, she has practiced third world medicine for 4 months in Liberia during the Ebola Epidemic of 2014-2015 with the American Refugee Committee, and for 1 month in Haiti in the Emergency Department of Hospital Universitaire de Mirebalais. She continues to teach Emergency Medicine procedures to medical students at the University of Minnesota, where she is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. She is current in her board certifications for both Emergency Medicine and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
Cheryl Dawn Adkinson MD, MA, FACEP
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine,
U of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
Honorary Faculty, Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis MN
Medical Director emeritus, Division of Hyperbaric Medicine,
Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN