Dr. Brian H. Williams is an Air Force veteran, trauma surgeon, former congressional health policy advisor, and recent candidate for US Congress. As a frontline clinician, medical educator, and bestselling author, Dr. Williams is a nationally recognized leader in how public policy intersects with gun violence prevention, health equity, and social justice.
Dr. Williams earned a BS in aeronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and his medical degree from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He has served as a associate professor of trauma and acute care surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a professor of trauma and acute care surgeon at the University of Chicago Medicine, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine. His book, The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal, is available anywhere books are sold.
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The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
In raw and intimate detail, trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams narrates not only the events of the night that thrust him into the national spotlight, but his grief and anger as a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Atul Gawande and Damon Tweedy, Williams diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us.
As Seen on CBS Mornings
Dr. Williams joins CBS Mornings with Gayle King to discuss his new book The Bodies Keep Coming
