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Elizabeth Ann Williams, Ph.D., of Nashville, TN, is associate director of minority affairs at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville. Dr. Williams has devoted extensive personal and professional time to the subjects of cancer survivorship among people of color, health disparities, social empowerment and health equity for people of color and the medically underserved. She received her doctorate and master's degrees in the field of applied anthropology with an emphasis in medical anthropology from the University of Kentucky (UK). During her training, Dr. Williams was a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pre-Doctoral Trainee and Lyman T. Johnson Fellow in the University of Kentucky's Department of Behavioral Science and The Graduate School, respectively. After receiving her doctorate, Dr. Williams served on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Georgia State University (GSU). Before joining the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center in 2005, Dr. Williams served as the inaugural director of disparity elimination in the Office of the Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Health. She was a Kellogg Foundation Emerging Leader in Public Health Fellow in 2005-2006. | 