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A certified family nurse practitioner, Williams received her diploma in nursing from Chicago's Illinois Masonic Medical Center School of Nursing. After earning a degree in history from Roosevelt University in Chicago, she received her Master of Science in Nursing from YSN and a doctorate in Adult Education from Columbia University. Her postdoctoral fellowship in research and epidemiology was completed at the University of California, San Francisco.
Williams currently serves as a professor at YSN and is a fellow at the University's Saybrook College. For over 2 decades she has worked as a nurse practitioner caring for persons with AIDS in New Haven, San Francisco, and abroad. Her program of research is a direct outgrowth of that clinical work. She designed and conducted some of the earliest studies of AIDS among drug users. Her work tested interventions to decrease HIV transmission, improve gynecologic care of women living with HIV, and increase patient adherence to antiretroviral medication. The work has been funded by sources such as NIH, Am. Far, WAF. She currently serves as trustee and secretary of the Yale-China Association. Her work in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Poland supports the international effort to limit the spread of HIV and improve the care of those already infected.
Williams, an accomplished author and researcher, has been honored many times for her work. Her book, HIV Nursing and Symptom Management, was named one of the Best Books of 1998 by The Nurse Practitioner. That same year, she received the Women's Health Research Award from the National Center for Excellence in Women's Health. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nurses.
HIV, primary care, substance abuse, international nursing, ethics and human rights
Developing an ART Adherence Intervention in South Central China. PI: Williams National Institute of Mental Health. This is a developmental project to design and test an intervention to promote adherence to antiretroviral medications among patients living with HIV/AIDS in south central China.
Connecticut AIDS Education and Training Center (www.neaetc.org). The major goal of this project is to plan, implement and evaluate effective strategies for educating health care workers about HIV/AIDS in Connecticut. PI: Williams
AIDS Care Program, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Member, Medical Staff, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care Staff, AIDS Care Program, Yale New Haven Hospital
Research Article of the Year, Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (Kitchen table wisdom: A Freirian approach to medication adherence, 16(1): 3-12), 2005
Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Memorial Award for Outstanding Women of Connecticut, 2003
Ruth B. Freeman Award for Distinguished Career in Public Health Nursing,
American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing Section, 2002
Research Article of the Year, Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS
Care (Factors associated with vaginal yeast infections in HIV positive women,
9(5):47-25), 1999
The Nurse Practitioner, Best Books of 1998 (HIV Nursing and Symptom
Management, M.E. Ropka and A.B.Williams, eds.), 1999
Women's Health Research Award, National Center for Excellence in Women's
Health, 1998
Virginia Henderson Award for Contributions to Nursing Research, Connecticut
Nurses Association,1994
Distinguished Alumna Award, Yale University Alumni Association, 1993
Distinguished Lecturer in Nursing, La Salle University, 1992
Fellow of the American Academy of Nurses, 1991
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar, University of California, San
Francisco, 1989
YWCA of Greater New Haven, Women in Leadership Award, May, 1987
Connecticut Mental Health Center Award for Excellence in Nursing Research, 1986
Sigma Theta Tau, National Honor Society of Nursing, 1985
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