Eleanor Adams MD
Eleanor Adams MD

Eleanor Adams MD

Attending Neurologist and Clinical Director of Neurological Services

Eleanor Adams, MD is an attending neurologist and Clinical Director of Neurological Services, practicing vascular neurology and stroke medicine in Western New York. Her work centers on timely stroke diagnosis, clinical leadership, and building neurological services patients can actually reach. She trained in Pittsburgh and at the Cleveland Clinic before returning to Buffalo.

Background

Eleanor Adams grew up in the northern suburbs of Buffalo, the daughter of an electrical engineer and an elementary school teacher. Watching a family member experience a stroke during her high school years set the direction of her career: she wanted to understand the brain, and she wanted to be the physician in the room when something went wrong with it.

She studied neuroscience at the University of Rochester, earned her MD at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, and completed her internal medicine internship and neurology residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. A vascular neurology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic followed, and she began her attending career in 2012 at a regional medical center in the Buffalo area.

Over the next decade she moved from bedside stroke care into broader clinical responsibility: teaching, departmental coordination, and the design of neurological services. In 2021 she became Clinical Director of Neurological Services at Buffalo Lakes Medical Center, overseeing physician mentoring, program development, and patient safety alongside her continued clinical work in vascular neurology.

She is board certified in neurology and vascular neurology, holds ACLS certification, and is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, the American Stroke Association, the American Medical Association, and the Medical Society of the State of New York. She has said that modern technology matters in neurological diagnosis, but clinical experience, careful examination, and communication remain essential — and that specialized neurological care should be accessible to patients throughout the region, not concentrated in one place.