 
Ann Williams |
the Jayne Professor of Nursing
Ann Williams, newly named as the Helen Porter Jayne and Martha Prosser Jayne Professor of Nursing, specializes in clinical research on HIV/AIDS and is actively involved in the care of people with the illness as a nurse practitioner with the AIDS Care Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Williams earlier focused on providing primary care to substance abusers. She designed and conducted some of the earliest studies on AIDS among intravenous drug users. Her research has examined such issues as interventions to help HIV-infected women comply with complex medication schedules, the association between HIV and gynecological infections and the prevention of bloodborne infections among Chinese nurses, as well as other issues. Her work has been funded by such sources as the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the World AIDS
Williams has also helped nurses and other providers in Poland, China and Vietnam learn to prevent AIDS and care for patients with the virus. In the New Haven area, much of her work has focused on poor and marginalized women with AIDS.
Williams is coeditor of "HIV Nursing and Symptom Management," which was selected as one of the best books of 1998 by The Nurse Practitioner. She has also written numerous book chapters and articles.
A graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago, Williams earned her M.S.N. from the Yale School of Nursing in 1981 and joined the faculty as a clinical instructor one year later. She later received an M.A. and Ed.D. in adult education from Columbia University. She served as an urgent visit nurse at the Yale Health Plan in 1981, then spent eight years working as a family nurse practitioner in the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit (SATU) of the Connecticut Mental Health Center, where she was codirector of SATU's Central Medical Unit 1988-89. She began work as a nurse at the AIDS Care Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1991 and was appointed a full professor at Yale in 1998.
Williams' honors include the Women's Health Research Award from the National Center for Excellence in Women's Health in 1998 and a Distinguished Alumna Award from the Yale University Alumni Association in 1993. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurses and the American Nurses' Association. Also a fellow of Saybrook College, Williams serves as atrustee of the Yale-China Association.
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