Mark Williams, MD

Research Focus:

Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology. His areas of research interest include pharmacologic and interventional analgesic clinical trials, particularly chronic neuropathic pain conditions. Dr. Williams is the PI of an industry-funded study of the topical treatment of post-surgical neuropathic pain and the site PI of an NIH-funded study of painful diabetic neuropathy. He is also collaborating with the Department of Neurosurgery to evaluate nerve blocks after subarachnoid hemorrhage. He has helped develop outcome measures for procedural sedation clinical trials and published several review articles highlighting methodological issues in pain clinical trials.