Kim Allan Williams Sr. (born 1954) is an American cardiologist and advocate of plant-based nutrition.
[2] He has served on the faculty of the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and in 2013 at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where he managed the Urban Cardiology Initiative.
Some questioned his views and motives for writing the essay, but Williams maintained that his enthusiasm for plant-based diets was based on his interpretation of medical literature and his own experience lowering his cholesterol by removing dairy and animal protein.
[6] Williams avoids using the term vegan due to its ethical implications.
[1] In 2020, he wrote the foreword to Healthy at Last, a book about plant-based eating by Eric Adams, at the time the Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City, and now mayor of New York City.