J. Corey Williams, MD, MA

Associate Professor

Department of Psychiatry
Georgetown University School of Medicine

General Information

Undergraduate Degree: University of Maryland, College Park

Degree: 

• Masters from American University, Washington, DC;
• Doctor of Medicine from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Internship/Residency at Yale University;

Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania-Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Research Focus: My research seeks to advance two central missions:

1) identifying and uprooting forms of structural racism embedded within the culture of medicine

2) advancing health equity through community-based mental health programs.

BIO

Dr. Williams is a former Washington, DC Public School Teacher, where he taught middle school science and completed a master’s degree in the Arts of Teaching at American University. He completed his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and residency training at Yale University. He completed a fellowship in child & adolescent psychiatry at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Williams is currently a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Medstar-Georgetown University Hospital. His clinical work focuses on school-based mental health, and he provides direct mental health support to schools as a part of the MedStar-WISE (Wellness In School Environments) program. He is the co-Executive Director for the Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN), a research, practice, and policy consortium focused on advancing early childhood development in Washington, DC. He is also a Co-Director of Recruitment, Retention and Climate at Medstar-Georgetown Department of Psychiatry.