02/18/26
Elizabeth Adams always planned to be a pediatrician. She loved working with kids and envisioned a medical career supporting families and children.
Then, as an undergraduate student, Adams started learning more about behavioral medicine and prevention. It changed her perspective. And while she kept the same goal — supporting children and families — she decided to approach it from a research angle.
“I got really intrigued by ‘food is medicine, exercise is medicine,’ these big initiatives to promote lifestyle changes and healthy behaviors to prevent future disease risk or future diseases,” she says. “The prevention and behavior angle really intrigued me as opposed to the treatment and prescription angle.”……
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