Peter Williamson, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dr. Peter Williamson received his MD, PhD from Boston University in 1987 and completed a residency in internal medicine at Georgetown University before coming to the National Institutes of Health for a fellowship in infectious diseases. In 1995, after serving as chief medical officer, Dr. Williamson joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago as an assistant professor of medicine in the section of infectious diseases. After progressing to the rank of professor of medicine, pathology, microbiology, and immunology, Dr. Williamson then returned to NIH to head the Translational Mycology Section in the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases.