Adrian Williams PhD

Dr Adrian Williams graduated from University College Hospital, London and took up a lectureship at the Cardiothoracic Institute, in the Brompton Hospital. He worked for Professor Lynne Reid, investigating pulmonary changes associated with chronic liver disease. Her appointment at Harvard in 1975 took Dr Williams to Boston where his interest in sleep began with the investigation of S.I.D.S.

He took up a post as chest physician at UCLA in 1977, which allowed his interest in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) to extend into adulthood. In 1985 Dr Williams became a tenured professor of medicine at UCLA and co-director of UCLA's sleep laboratory, the third oldest in the US (after the Mayo Clinic and Stanford).