- University Department Pharmacy
- Location Room 4033, Congdon Hall
- Phone Number 336-841-9260
- Email [email protected]
Adkins teaches topics of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, as well as advises and mentors pharmacy students. He looks forward to contributing to curricular and programmatic assessment to promote continuous quality improvement in all aspects of pharmacy education.
He earned his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. His doctoral dissertation explored the complex nature of the “blood-brain barrier” in the presence of brain metastases and how it influences the ability of medications, such as anti-cancer drugs, to distribute into metastases and elicit therapeutic effects. Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Adkins pursued a postdoctoral fellowship and research assistant professorship at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, where he continued research of the blood-brain barrier and metastatic cancer cells. In 2016, he accepted an assistant professorship at the South University School of Pharmacy in Savannah, Georgia, where he focused primarily on teaching and mentoring pharmacy students in their didactic pharmacy education.