Hoover Adger, Jr., MD MPH MBA, is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research and clinical interests include adolescent/young adult substance use disorders and children in families affected by the disease of addiction.

He is a past Deputy Director of the White House Office of Nation Drug Control Policy and has over four decades of leadership experience and sustained funding from NIDA, NIAAA, SAMHSA, HRSA and others in support of health professional education and policy in support substance use prevention, early intervention and core competencies for health professionals.  He is board certified in pediatrics, adolescent medicine, and addiction medicine. He was the previous director of Adolescent Medicine and is now a senior faculty member in the Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Adger is the Co-Director of the CARE Clinic for adolescent/ family Addiction, Recovery, and Early Intervention at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. He served as an officer and member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM) and was a founding member of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He has been President of two well-known national organizations that promote, and advance multi-disciplinary education and research related the substance use disorders, the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction (AMERSA) and the National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA). He been the recipient of multiple multi-year faculty development awards from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and for a decade was the PI/Project Director for the HRSA funded Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) interdisciplinary training program on health disparities.

He is the current Co-Project Investigator of a PCORI funded randomized controlled comparative effectiveness trial evaluating an alcohol brief motivational intervention in adolescents.