Winfred W. Williams, M.D.

Dr. Williams completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard College and obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at New York University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship training in Nephrology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

He is Director of the Program in Interventional Nephrology for the Transplantation Unit at MGH. His clinical and research activities are focused on patients with hypertension and end stage renal disease-kidney transplantation and dialysis - and liver transplantation. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a new technology designed to incorporate principles of tissue engineering and dialysis perfusion therapies to create an artificial liver. The artificial liver is called the extracorporeal liver assist device, or ELAD, and will be used to bridge patients with severe liver failure either to recovery of their own intrinsic liver function or to successful liver transplantation.

Dr. Williams is Chair of the Minority Affairs Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the national body that sets forth policies and rules for the distribution of transplanted organs in the United States. In conjunction with the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, the UNOS/Minority Affairs Committee develops and examines, in detail, policy initiatives that might improve the access of minority patients to the opportunity for organ transplantation.

An accomplished clinician and physician educator, Dr. Williams was the recipient this past year of the Primary Care Teacher of the Year Award in the Internal Medicine Division at MGH.

Dr. Williams is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, the Massachusetts General Hospital Committee on Diversity, and the Harvard Medical School Executive Council on Diversity, and co-Chair of the Multicultural Affairs Office Advisory Board.