Chief, Translational Mycology Section
Provides direct clinical care to patients at NIH Clinical Center
Education:
M.D., Ph.D., 1987, Boston University, Boston, MA
Biography
Dr. Williamson received his M.D./Ph.D. from Boston University in 1987 and completed a residency in internal medicine at Georgetown University before coming to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a fellowship in infectious diseases. In 1995, after serving a short stint as chief medical officer, Lalmba Sudan, Dr. Williamson joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago as an assistant professor of medicine in the section of infectious diseases. After progressing to the rank of professor of medicine, pathology, microbiology, and immunology, Dr. Williamson then returned to NIH to head the Translational Mycology Section in the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases.