_{MBBS BMedSc (Hons) PhD (Adel) FRACS (Neurosurgery)}

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Dr Adam Wells is a South Australian Neurosurgeon with interests in traumatic brain injury, concussion, stroke and degenerative spine disease. He graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 2003 with a concurrent First Class Honours research degree, supervised by Professor Nigel Jones. In 2008 Dr Wells commenced his advanced Neurosurgical training with posts in the Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia. During this period he gained his PhD from the University of Adelaide for his original research into ischaemic stroke, and was awarded the prestigious Peter Leech Memorial Prize and the Nimmo Prize for full-time research. In 2017 Dr Wells undertook a clinical fellowship in Neurotrauma at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Health Trust, United Kingdom, under the supervision of Olivecrona award winner Professor Peter Hutchinson. Upon returning to South Australia in 2018, Dr Wells was appointed as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and Clinical Academic Consultant Neurosurgeon at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Further information can be found on Dr Adam Wells’ own web site.

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