MB MS FRCS FMedSci

Chair of Trustees

Professor Williams is a world renowned surgeon and leader in the field of bowel disorders. He is the Director of the Centre for Academic Surgery at Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has won numerous accolades over the years, including the Patey Prize of the Surgical Research Society, the Moynihan Fellowship of the Association of Surgeons and the BUPA Society of Authors' Prize (Jointly) for the textbook "Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon ". He was awarded the Nessim Habif Prize for Surgery in 1995 and the Galen Medal in Therapeutics in recognition of the advances made in colorectal surgery in 2002.

He is Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a member of the Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has been President of European Digestive Surgery, Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Surgery, Chairman of the UKCCCR Committee on Colorectal Cancer, a member of the National Cancer Research Network Steering Group and the MRC Physiology and Infection Board. He is President of the Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group of Great Britain and The International Surgical Group (2006-7). He has been the Sir Alan Parks Visiting Professor 2002, the John Goligher Lecturer 2002, the Zachary-Cope Lecturer for the Royal College of Surgeons 2003 and the GB Ong Visiting Professor in Hong Kong in 2004.