Roger Williams (hepatologist)

Roger Stanley Williams (28 August 1931 – 26 July 2020)[1] was a British professor of hepatology (treatment of pathological conditions of the liver).

After National Service in the RAMC, he worked at the Postgraduate Medical School, London and between 1959-1965 was a Lecturer in Medicine in Professor Sheila Sherlock's Liver Unit at the Royal Free Hospital, including a year as the Rockefeller Travelling Fellow in Medicine at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York.

Other pioneering work in acute liver failure led to the first dedicated unit for patients with this condition.

He was a founder member of European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), serving as Chairman in 1983 and as Honorary President in 2008.

Professor Williams practiced at King's College Hospital and in the Harley Street Diagnostic Clinic until he died in 2020.