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Michelle A. Williams, ScD, SM, MS, AB |
Professor, Epidemiology (primary department)
Professor, Global Health
Adjunct Professor, Health Services
Co-Director of the Center for Perinatal Studies at Swedish Medical Center.
Director of the University's Multidisciplinary International Research Training (MIRT) Program
Director, Reproductive Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology(RPPE)Training Program
Contact Information
University of Washington
Box 357236
Dept. of Epidemiology
1959 NE Pacific Street
Health Sciences F-161E
Seattle, WA 98195-7236
Tel: 206-543-8225
http://depts.washington.edu/mirt/mirt.htm
mwilliam@u.washington.edu
Swedish Medical Center
Center for Perinatal Studies
Tel: 206-386-3107
Research Interests
Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, prenatal screening
Dr. Williams a tenured Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. She is also Co-Director of the Center for Perinatal Studies at Swedish Medical Center and Affiliate Investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Williams' major research interests and activities are women's reproductive health and child health. Her current activities include research and teaching collaborations with epidemiologists in Peru, Ecuador, Vietnam, Thailand, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and the Republic of Georgia. In 1993, Michelle developed the University of Washington Multidisciplinary International Research Training (UW-MIRT) Program, which trains students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds for research and leadership careers in public health. By identifying and implementing alliances for this global health program, Dr. Williams provides undergraduate students with life enriching and academically rigorous experiences in developing countries. At the same time, students and faculty in the MIRT Program dedicate themselves to addressing real global public health problems with their partners in developing countries. The MIRT program represents a win-win solution for all involved.
Dr. Williams is Co-Director of the Center for Perinatal Studies at Swedish Medical Center, a multidisciplinary research program involving clinical scholars, basic scientists and epidemiologists. Her research program focuses on integrating genomic sciences and epidemiological research methods to identify risk factors, diagnostic markers, treatments and prevention targets for disorders that contribute to maternal and infant mortality. Always interested in engaging young scholars in research, Dr. Williams, her collaborators, and her cadre pre- and post-doctoral fellows actively study cohorts of pregnant women as they work to understand the determinants of preterm delivery, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and placental abruption. In her own laboratory at Swedish Medical Center, she is working to identify unique gene expression patterns that may be used to predict which pregnant women will go on to develop hypertension in late pregnancy (preeclampsia) and/or deliver prematurely. She has authored or co-authored more than 180 original research papers.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Williams currently teaches EPI 521 joint with HSV 542 "Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health Problems" offered in the Winter Quarter.
Education
ScD, Epidemiology, Harvard University 1991
SM, Demography, Harvard University 1988
MS, Civil Engineering, Tufts University 1986
AB, Genetics, Princeton University 1984
Selected Publications
For a list of publications -click here
Links
Brotman Award: http://depts.washington.edu/mirt/brotman.html
Lilienfield Award:http://depts.washington.edu/mirt/award.html