Professor Adrian Williams

Professor Williams has had a long interest in Sleep Medicine dating back to research conducted at Harvard University. Subsequently he was appointed at UCLA and developed what was to become the largest sleep service within the Veterans Administration while at the same time co-directing the UCLA Sleep Disorders Centre. As sleep medicine gelled as a specialty, Professor Williams was one of the first to take the Board examinations in 1989 to become an accredited polysomnographer and Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

On return to London to Direct the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit, he he established the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, now by far the largest and most active in the UK, where he continues as a Consultant Physician, in addition to his similar role at Queen Victoria Hospital.

Professor Williams has published widely in the field, is a Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, European Somnologist (Certified by the European Sleep Research Society), a founding member and Past President of the Sleep Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and hold’s the UK’s first Chair in Sleep Medicine at Kings College, London, UK.