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The NIH Record  -- February 15, 1983, Page 1

Dr. T. Franklin Williams Named NIA Director Dr. T. Franklin Williams has been selected as Director of the National Institute on Aging, effective July 1. Dr. Williams is professor of medicine and professor of preventive, family and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also codirector of the center on aging of the university's medical center. He was recently appointed as the J. Lowell Orbison distinguished service alumni professor of the University of Rochester Medical Center. He has served as medical director of the Monroe Community Hospital since 1968. Dr. Williams has conducted basic and clinical research on diabetes. His activities in basic research have included studies on genetically determined rickets.

Well-known and highly respected in his field, Dr. Williams' extensive list of publications includes clinical care of the geriatric patient, assessment, long-term care and chronic illness, diabetes, and research and health services for the elderly.

He was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1976, and served for the past 3 years as a member of the Institute Council. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Public Health Assocation. He currently is a member of the board of the American Geriatrics Society.

A native of North Carolina, Dr. Williams received his B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina, his M.A. degree from Columbia University, and his M.D. degree from the Harvard Medical School in 1950. His postgraduate training included internship and a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

He was senior resident physician at Boston's Veterans Administration Hospital, and a research fellow in medicine at the University of North Carolina, prior to his appointment as an instructor there in 1956. He served on the North Carolina faculty for 12 years and was a professor of medicine and preventive medicine prior to his move to Rochester in 1968.

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