Deborah Jean Williams, MD, MS

Deborah J. Williams, MD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, where she completed residency training in 2012. She has a master's degree in physics and a medical degree from Wake Forest University. Prior to entering the medical profession, she worked as a laboratory manager and adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a CUSP science technician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. As faculty coordinator for the Emergency Department Journal Club, she aims to improve the residents' mastery in critical review of scientific literature while keeping the department up-to-date on pertinent clinical research. Her particular research interest is in methodology for modeling complex systems as a means of improving the safety and efficiency of patient care.