Pediatrics Veteran Dr. Adayna Upchurch-Burrows Joins The SRMM 2025 Cohort in The Gambia!

Dr. Adayna Upchurch-Burrows is a pediatrician who has practiced in the Hampton

Roads area of Virginia for over 20 years. She has worked for Hampton Roads

Community Health Center since February 2024 and prior to that employment she

worked for Tidewater Pediatric Consultants for 20 years.

She is a true Howard University Bison, having received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, her Doctorate of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency all at the same prestigious institution. After giving surgery some contemplation, she chose Pediatrics because she loved the metamorphosis that a person undergoes from birth to young adulthood. She enjoys the challenges that each patient can bring because it reminds her that medicine is a craft that is to be continually practiced and studied.

In addition to her engaging workday, Dr. Burrows enjoys staying healthy and fit.

She has a passion for helping others on their fitness journey. She was a member

of Howard University’s Women’s Track team in her undergraduate years as a full

scholarship recipient. She continues to run presently and completed her first half

marathon in March 2012. In addition to her track skills, she also completed her

first bodybuilding competitions in 2014 and in 2015. Dr. Burrows is a Zumba

instructor and has taught Zumba to after school Portsmouth, VA students and

individual classes through the YMCA and at private gyms. She became a certified

personal trainer in 2023 to take her passion to those who want to transform their

mind, bodies, health and spirit.

Dr. Burrows loves the career she chose, but before it she always remembers that

she is a child of God and a mother of two beautiful daughters. She desires that all

young children and adolescents will reach their full potential in God and realize

that they are precious gems that do not have to compromise themselves for the

masses.