Susan Williams, MD

• Selected: USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, The National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Washington, DC&
• One of the first Internists to be elected Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology
• Appointed: Dean’s Advisory Council, College of Arts & Sciences, Kansas State University
• Appointed as full-time staff to the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism – 2012
• Published Text: DXA Primer for the Practicing Physician: A Case-based Manual for Understanding and Interpreting Bone Densitometry;  that was rapidly recognized as an authoritative text on the subject and translated into several languages
• Appointed to the inaugural Board of the American Board of Obesity Medicine
• President of the Ohio River Region, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
• Chair, Certification Council, International Society for Clinical Densitometry
• Direct Commission, United States Air Force

• Cleveland Clinic Education Institute Distinguished Educator Level I Certificate-2011
• LEAD: Leadership Enhancement and Development Program
  American College of Physicians-2009
• Academic Medicine Elective
  Wright State University School of Medicine-2001
• Lieutenants Professional Development Course
  Department of the Air Force
  Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio-1989
• USAF Dietetic Internship, Malcolm Grow USAF Medical Center
  Military Airlift Command
  Washington, DC-1988
• Military Indoctrination for Medical Service Officers
  82nd Training Wing
  Sheppard Air Force Base, Texax-1987
• Special Duty, United States Naval War College
  United States Air Force
  Newport, Rhode Island-1987
• United States Naval War College
  International Sea Power Symposium
  Newport, Rhode Island-1987

• Fellow, American College of Endocrinology
• Fellow, American College of Physicians
• Fellow, American College of Nutrition
• Voluntary Faculty Award, Wright State University School of Medicine
• Nurses' Choice Award, Departments of Nursing, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, Ohio
• Helen L. Popoway Resident Research Award, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, Ohio
• E.W. Kettering Scholar
• Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

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