Rhys Williams

Professor Emeritus (Medicine)
Swansea University Medical School,
Swansea,
South Wales,
UK

Telephone no: (01792) 513400
Email:d.r.r.williams@swansea.ac.uk
Website: www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/medicine/learningandteaching/williamsdrr/

Rhys Williams is Emeritus Professor at Swansea University, South Wales, UK. Prior to his retirement in 2011 he was Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University and the Foundation Dean of Medicine of the medical school which took its first students in 2004.

He qualified as a doctor in London in 1972; worked in hospital medicine in various places in the UK before training in public health and moving into academic medicine and research. He has held academic posts in the universities of Durham, Cambridge and Leeds. He has been a visiting consultant to the World Health Organisation, Geneva, and is a Trustee of Diabetes UK (formerly the British Diabetic Association). His main professional activities continue to be the improvement of the health of people with diabetes and research into diabetes and related conditions. As part of this he now chairs the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas Committee assembling the material for the 9th edition of the Atlas due to be launched on World Diabetes Day (14th November) this year.

During his 16 years working in Cambridge (1977 – 1993) he had the privilege of being involved in several WHO / IDF Diabetes Seminars including the first, established by John Jarrett and Harry Keen.