Williams, David

David N. Williams, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Assistant Chief of the Department of Medicine. Dr. Williams received his MD degree from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and his training in Infectious Diseases at the Channing Laboratory (Harvard Medical Unit) at Boston City Hospital. He came to Minnesota in 1974 and has worked at the University of Minnesota Hospital, Park Nicollet Medical Center and since 1994 at Hennepin County Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and the present Governor of the Minnesota Chapter of the American College of Physicians. His main interests are in immigrant health, international medicine, and outpatient aspects of infectious diseases

Selected Publications:

Williams DN, Rehm SJ, Tice AD, Bradley JS, Kind AC, Craig WA. Practice guidelines for community-based parenteral anti-infective therapy. CID. 1997;25:787-801.

Kamaraju S, Nelson K, Williams DN, Ayenew W, Modi KS. Staphylococcus lugdunensis pulmonary valve endocarditis in a patient on chronic hemodialysis. Am J Nephrol 1999;19:605-608.

Kempainen R, Nelson K, Williams DN, Hedemark L. Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in Somali immigrants in Minnesota. Chest. 2001;119:176-180.

Baker CA, Cartwright CP, Williams DN, Nelson SM, Peterson PK. Early Detection of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis with the Gen-Probe Nucleic-acid Amplification Assay: Utility in an Inner City Hospital. Clin Infect Dis 2002; 35:339-42.

Williams DN, Sannes MR, Eckhoff AA, Peterson PK, et al. Antimicrobial Resistance in Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections in Costa Rica: A clinical dilemma. Int J Antimicrob Agents.2003;21((1):79-81.

Williams DN. West Nile Virus. J R Coll Phys Edinb. 2003; 33.

Tice AD, Rehm SJ, Dalovisio JR, Bradley JS, Martinelli LP, Graham DR, Gainer RB, Kunkel MJ, Yancey RW, and Williams DN. Practice Guidelines for Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 38:1651-72. 

Newberry AM, Williams DN, Stauffer WM, Hendel-Paterson BR, Boulware DR and Walker PK. Strongyloides Hyperinfection Presenting as Acute Respiratory Failure.  Chest 2005 Accepted for publication. 

Rock BR, Sutherland WM, Baker C and Williams DN. Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis among Ethnic Somalis in Minnesota: the impact of immigration.  Emerging Infectious Diseases – submitted for publication. (2005)