INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Health care is top of mind for everyone coping with the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who has ties to Indiana, is one of the many minorities leading the charge against COVID-19. We’ve seen Jerome Adams often standing shoulder to shoulder with President Donald Trump. Recently, he warned that Indianapolis could be a COVID-19 hot spot.

As a nation in a health crisis, Americans often look to the experts for direction and reassurance. Every weekday, members of the Coronavirus Task Force address the nation. He’s one of the task force members.

“We know people with underlying medical conditions over the age of 60 are at highest risk,” said Adams in one address to the nation.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, the American people had seen Adams’ work fighting the opioid epidemic and reviewing how community health impacts economic growth.

But for many Hoosiers, the man is now considered the nation’s doctor. Hoosiers may remember him serving as the Indiana health commissioner. He was appointed by the man who was then governor, Vice President Mike Pence.

Adams earned his medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine. He later served as a professor of clinical anesthesia at the university and was a staff anesthesiologist for Eskenazi Health.

As the state health commissioner, he worked closely with Pence to fight an HIV outbreak in parts of the state.

Adams became surgeon general in 2017.

Now he along and many others are fighting the coronavirus. In a recent tweet, he mentioned the growing need to “flatten the curve” to help slow the spread of the virus. He specifically called out “emerging hotspots” like New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami and Indianapolis.