Dr
Williams is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at
the University of California, San Francisco based at the San Francisco VA
Medical Center. She has a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University and
received her MD and MS in Community Medicine from the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine. She trained in internal medicine at UCSF, was a Clinician Educator in
the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine, and then completed the UCSF
geriatric clinical and research fellowship. Dr. Williams joined UCSF’s Division
of Geriatrics faculty in 2007 as a recipient of the Hartford Geriatrics Health
Outcomes Research Scholar Award. Dr. Williams’ current work focuses on the
intersection between geriatric medicine and the legal system. She is interested
in the health of older adults who come into contact with the law either as
perpetrators or as victims of crime. Dr. Williams is the co-founder and
co-director of the Geriatrics Teaching and Consultation Service at San Quentin
Prison, has worked as a healthcare consultant to the California Department of
Corrections and to several legal organizations, and is the forensic geriatrician
at San Francisco’s Elder Abuse Forensic Center. As a Brookdale Fellow, Dr.
Williams will conduct a series of studies to determine the medical, cognitive,
and functional status of geriatric prisoners1 in the context of their
environment; assess predictors of adverse health events of geriatric prisoners;
compare the health of older prisoners who will soon be released to older adults
in the community; and create and pilot-test a validated tool to determine older
adults' plans for – and perceived barriers to – healthcare after release. .