Michael Williams, MD

• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Dr. Michael E. Williams is the Byrd S. Leavell professor of medicine and professor of pathology at UVA School of Medicine.

Dr. Williams received his MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a master of science from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his medicine residency, chief residency and fellowship in hematology/oncology at the UVA Health in Charlottesville.

Dr. Williams’ research interests are in novel therapeutic approaches for non-Hodgkin lymphomas, mantle cell lymphoma and CLL, including targeted agents and immunotherapeutics. He serves on the scientific advisory board of the Lymphoma Research Foundation, and is a member of the European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Network and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Lymphoma Core Committee. He is a former chair of the Hematology Subspecialty Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

He participates regularly in national and international programs devoted to education and research in lymphoma, CLL and other hematologic malignancies.