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Dr. Williams is Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Trauma, Critical Care, and Surgical Nutrition in the Department of Surgery at Howard University a Level I Trauma Center in Washington, D.C. He is an academic traumatologist with a very busy practice in all three components of acute care surgery including, trauma surgery, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care.

He has served the nation as a combat surgeon and the Chief of Surgery at the 345th Combat Support Hospital in Al Asad, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and as the senior officer of the Mobile Surgical Team of the Medical Element of Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras. He currently holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. As an academic trauma surgeon, he was previously the Associate Director of Trauma & Critical Care at the Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport where he helped train providers and built capacity at the trauma center level. He served on the Louisiana Emergency Response Network, a state commission with the mission of building an inclusive trauma system. He is also the former Chief of Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery at the University of Toledo.

He is a member of several professional trauma societies. As a result of a wealth of clinical experience in busy urban and rural trauma centers, active duty service in the military, and academic contributions, and he is considered a subject matter expert in the resuscitation of multisystem trauma.