Ms. Adkins is senior vice president and chief compliance, privacy and audit officer at University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore. Ms. Adkins leads the health system’s enterprise compliance, ethics and privacy programs, working across the academic health system to safeguard protected health information and support regulatory compliance. She partners with privacy, legal, information security, clinical and operational leaders to strengthen safeguards protecting patient confidentiality. Ms. Adkins oversees programs that identify, assess and mitigate risks tied to privacy, compliance, governance, investigations and emerging technologies. She has helped advance enterprise initiatives focused on conflict-of-interest oversight, audit readiness, governance transparency and the responsible use of AI-enabled productivity tools. In addition to her compliance role, Ms. Adkins serves as chief compliance and audit officer for the health system. Previously, she was chief compliance and privacy officer for Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. and vice president and regional compliance and privacy officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States in Hyattsville, Md.
