University of Rochester Radiation Oncologist Named to Several Prestigious Posts

Jacqueline P. Williams, research professor of radiation oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center of the University of Rochester, was named Williams Chair of the Scientific Research Council of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. She was also inducted as a fellow of the society at its annual meeting in Miami Beach. The society has more than 10,000 members.

Earlier this year, Dr. Williams was named president of the Radiation Research Society and elected councilor-at-large of the International Association of Radiation Research.

Professor Williams has been at the University of Rochester since 1990. Previously, she taught at the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. She is a graduate of the University of Nottingham and earned a Ph.D. in radiation biology at the University of London.