David A. Williams, Ph.D.
David A. Williams, Ph.D., received his doctorate from Ohio State University and completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine and Pain Management at Duke University Medical Center. Currently, he is an associate professor of Medicine/Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, serves as an associate director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center and is director of research development within the Michigan Institute for Clinical Health Research (also at the U-M). Williams has held faculty appointments at both Duke and at Georgetown University Medical Center, where he served as the division chief of Behavioral Medicine. He has more than 25 years experience working with patients with pain and chronic illnesses. In addition to being an experienced clinician, he has more than 60 scholarly publications in chronic illness management, outcomes measurement and instrument development, mechanisms in chronic pain, and research methodologies. He has worked both as a collaborator and as principal investigator on NIH, Veteran's Administration and Deptartment of Defense-sponsored clinical treatment trials, mechanistic research and data coordination centers.
