HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
Center for Health Policy & Health Services Research

L. Keoki Williams, MD, MPH
Investigator

Contact Information:
Email: kwillia5@hfhs.org
Phone: (313) 874-5454
Fax: (313) 874-7137

Recent Publications:

Williams LK, Peterson EL, Wells K, Campbell J, Wang M, Chowdhry VK, Walsh M, Enberg R, Lanfear DE, Pladevall M.  A cluster-randomized trial to provide clinicians inhaled corticosteroid adherence information for their patients with asthma.  J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 Aug;126(2):225-31, 231.e1-4. Epub 2010 May 31

Pladevall M, Brotons C, Gabriel R, Arnau A, Suarez C, de la Figuera M, Marquez E, Coca A, Sobrino J, Divine G, Heisler M, Williams LK, Writing Committee on behalf of the COM99 Study Group.  Multicenter Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Intervention to Improve Antihypertensive Medication Adherence and Blood Pressure Control Among Patients at High Cardiovascular Risk (The COM99 Study).  Circulation. 2010 Sep 21;122(12):1183-1191. Epub 2010 Sep 7. 

Ownby DR, Peterson EL, Williams LK, Zoratti EM, Wegienka GR, Woodcroft KJ, Joseph CL, Johnson CC.  Variation of dust endotoxin concentrations by location and time with homes of young children.  Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2010 May;21(3):533-40. Epub 2010 Jan 14.

Habib ZA, Havstad SL, Wells K, Divine G, Pladevall M, Williams LK.  Thiazolidinedione use and the longitudinal risk of fractures in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2010 Feb;95(2):592-600. Epub 2010 Jan 8.

Jin YD, Hu EL, Peterson EL, Eng C, Levin AM, Wells K, Beckman K, Kumar R, Seibold MA, Karungi G, Zoratti A, Gaggin J, Campbell J, Galanter J, Chapela R, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Watson HG, Meade K, Lenoir M, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Avilla PC, Lanfear DE, Burchard EG, Williams LK.  Dual-specificity phosphatase 1 as a pharmacogenetic modifier of inhaled steroid response among asthmatic patients.  J Allergy Clin Immunol 2010;126(3):618-625 e 2

Kumar R,* Seibold MA,* Aldrich MC,* Williams LK,* Reiner AP, Colangelo L, Galanter J, Gignoux C, Hu D, Sen S, Choudhry S, Peterson EL, Rodriguez-Santana J, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Nalls MA, Leak TS, O'Meara E, Meibohm B, Kritchevsky SB, Li R, Harris TB, Nickerson DA, Fornage M, Enright P, Ziv E, Smith LJ, Liu K, Burchard EG.  Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions.  N Engl J Med. 2010 Jul 22;363(4):321-30. Epub 2010 Jul 7. [*denotes equal author contribution to the article]

Biography:
Dr. Williams is both a practicing general internist and researcher in the Henry Ford Health System. He holds appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine, the Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, and the Center for Health Services Research. He graduated cum laude in both research and academics from the University of Michigan Medical School and is a former HHMI-NIH Research Scholar. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Afterward, he was commissioned as Lt. Commander in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He subsequently completed a fellowship in General Medicine at the University of Michigan where he was a National Research Service Award recipient. His current interests include patient adherence to medicine, particulary in chronic diseases such as asthma, and genetic epidemiology. He is currently principal investigator of two independent investigator (R01) awards from the National Institutes of Health, and is the recipient of an Early Excellence Award from the Sandler Foundation.