David A.  Williams , MD

David A. Williams, age 55, is a graduate of Indiana State University and Indiana University School of Medicine. After training in Pediatrics at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Dr. Williams completed fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Childrens Hospital Boston/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He completed his research training at the Cancer Center and Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then became a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Dr. Williams returned to Indiana and served for ten years as the inaugural director of the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research at Indiana University School of Medicine. In 2002, Dr. Williams left join to join Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) as the Director of the Division of Experimental Hematology and attending physician in Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics, where he stayed until 2007. Dr. Williams also served as the Associate Chair for Translational Research at CCHMC and Deputy Director of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center from 2002-2006. He is currently the Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology and Director of Clinical and Translational Research, Childrens Hospital Boston and the Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Williams served five years on Subcommittee A for Comprehensive Cancer Centers, National Cancer Institute and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for several NIH study sections. He was a member of the Board of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. He is a past president of the International Society of Experimental Hematology and past member of the Council of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Dr. Williams has received numerous awards for his research, including the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics from the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR), the William Dameshek Award from the American Society of Hematology, and the Samuel Rosenthal Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics by the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen (AMSPDC). Dr. Williams received the Frank Oski Award at the 2006 meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the Donald Metcalf Award at the 2006 meeting of the International Society of Experimental Hematology. In 2002, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Williams participates in the care of children with genetic and other hematologic diseases of the blood. He served as the inaugural Co-director of the Cincinnati Fanconi Anemia Comprehensive Care Center at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center. He currently attends on the Hematology service at Childrens Hospital Boston. He co-directs the Fanconi Anemia and Bone Marrow Failure multidisciplinary clinic at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Williams has served as the Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Training Program at CCHMC from 2002-2007. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Therapy. He is a member of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) and has been active in development and implementation of multiple human gene therapy trials. Dr. Williams leads the Translational Research Program at CHB. The purpose of this initiative is to build an infrastructure to facilitate more rapid migration of discovery research into pediatric clinical trials.

• Children's Hospital Boston

  Hematology/Oncology
  300 Longwood Avenue

  Karp Family Research Facilities, Room 08125.3

  Boston, MA  02115
  Phone: 617-355-8246
  Fax: 617-730-0934