J. Corey

Williams

MD, MA

J. Corey Williams, MD, MA, is the co-Executive Director of the Early Childhood Innovation Network, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, and a child and adolescent psychiatrist focused on school-based mental health services for predominantly Black children and families. Dr. Williams is currently the Co-Director of Recruitment, Retention, and Development at MedStar Georgetown Department of Psychiatry. A graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he served on the Departmental Diversity & Inclusion Committee and helped to develop a health equity and social justice curriculum for the residency program during his residency at Yale University–New Haven Hospital. During his fellowship at UPenn–Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia he served as one of the founding members of the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. He currently leads a faculty development initiative called Faculty Learning Communities, which focuses on issues of anti-racism and cultural humility in clinical care. He also co-leads a curriculum committee focused on anti-racism education for the MedStar Georgetown Psychiatry Residency program. He is a current participant in an education scholarship program at MedStar Health called Teaching Scholars, which is a two-year longitudinal program leading to Medical Education Research Certification (MERC) and Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) certification. For the last three years, he has co-chaired a national consortium of anti-racism educators in medicine called the National Anti-Racism in Medicine Curriculum Coalition (NAMCC). The NAMCC network has been recognized as a national leader in antiracism and social justice education in medicine. NAMCC curriculum materials have been presented at six national conferences thus far, and across at least 15 different health care systems nationally, for various resident and faculty educational initiatives.