Adam Donald Highley MD

Asthma & COPD, Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease

Physician

1 Richland Medical Park Drive Suite 300Prisma Health Pulmonology–Richland Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep MedicineColumbia, SC 29203
Phone+1 803-434-7910

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Summary

Dr. Adam Highley is a pulmonologist based in Columbia SC, with subspecialties in asthma & COPD, critical care medicine, and pleural disease. He completed his residency in internal medicine at SSM St Mary's Hospital-St Louis and a fellowship in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine. Dr. Highley graduated from the American University of Antigua College of Medicine in 2010. He has published research in the Journal of Thoracic Disease, with his work being cited three times.

Education & Training

Creighton University School of Medicine (Omaha)Fellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2017
SSM St Mary's Hospital-St LouisResidency, Internal Medicine, 2011 - 2014
American University of Antigua College of MedicineClass of 2010

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Certifications & Licensure

MO State Medical License 2026 - 2027
SC State Medical License 2025 - 2027
NE State Medical License 2014 - 2026
IA State Medical License 2017 - 2025
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

3 citations
Waste not, want not: diagnostic material found in suction syringe aspirate during endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration
Nikhil Jagan, Carolina Landeen, Douglas R. Moore, Adam Highley, Ryan W. Walters
Journal of Thoracic Disease. 2019-08-19