Biography

Jill M. Williams, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at the Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick. She also holds faculty appointments at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Rutgers Center for Addiction Studies. The focus of Dr. Williams’ work has been in addressing tobacco in individuals with mental illness or other addictions through treatment and systems interventions. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Remarkable Achievement Award of the NJ Psychiatric Association. She also is recent past Chair of the APA Council on Addiction Psychiatry.