Thinking Outside the Box

Tony Adkins is a Physician Assistant in pediatric neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Orange County. He also works at the emergency department at St. Joseph's Hospital. He is known as the “dancing doc” on social media and his philosophy on treating patients is to individualize each patient on the best practice rooted in a recovery model. Due to his widely-recognized uplifting nature as a provider, Tony has been featured on many television shows such as Good Morning America and Good Day LA. Tony graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine’s PA program and received his master's in public health, global health, and epidemiology at Loma Linda University. He had a non-traditional path to medicine as he initially served in the army for nine years.