Andrew Williams, PhD

Dr. Williams is developing new methods for leveraging the data within electronic medical records to understand and improve medical decision making. He is site-PI, co-investigator, project director, or statistician on several active NIH-funded projects. One central area of his research is using electronic medical record data to characterize and improve health services, such as examining how practice variations can affect diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention. He is also working to measure the comprehension of spoken health-related messages.
Another area of his research is obesity and weight control. Dr. Williams is working on a project delivering and evaluating a worksite-based weight control program, and is a member of the Obesity Prevention in Worksites Steering Committee. He is part of the Diabetes Multicenter Research Consortium, which is funded through AHRQ and is on the HMO Cancer Research Network's Steering Committee.
Dr. Williams is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Hawaii's John A Burns School of Medicine. He is a member of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and the American Psychological Association. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2006.