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Monique Williams

Monique Williams, MD, MSCI

Associate Professor
Interim Division Chief, Interim Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship

Office: 806-743-3155
Email: monique.williams@ttuhsc.edu

Patient Appointments:
806-743-3150
Clinic Location:
Texas Tech Pavilion

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Education:

  • Fellowship: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
  • Residency: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
  • Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine, MO
  • Undergraduate School: Washington University School of Medicine, MO

Publications:

  • Sertraline for prevention of depression recurrence in diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Archives of General Psychiatry 2006:63: 521-529.
  • Treating depression to prevent diabetes and complications: Understanding depression as a medical risk factor. Clinical Diabetes 2006:24:79-86.
  • Survival and mortality differences between dementia with Lewy bodies vs Alzheimer disease. Neurology 2006:67:1935-41.
  • Factors influencing glycemic control in type 2 diabetes during acute- and maintenance-phase treatment of major depressive disorder with bupropion. Diabetes Care 2007:30:459-466.
  • Efficacy of sertraline in prevention of depression recurrence in older versus younger adults with diabetes. Diabetes Care 2007: 30:801-806.
  • Stability of the Clinical Dementia Rating: 1979-2007. Archives of Neurology 2009:66:773-777.
  • Cancer linked to Alzheimer’s disease but not vascular dementia: The Cardiovascular Health Study. Neurology 2010:74:106-112.
  • Enhanced identification of Alzheimer’s disease using amyloid imaging: proof of concept, Neurology 2010:75:42-48.
  • Barriers and facilitators of African American participation in Alzheimer’s disease biomarker research. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders 2010: 24 Suppl;S24-29.
  • Improving CSF biomarker accuracy in predicting prevalent and incident Alzheimer’s disease. Neurology 2011 76:501-510.
  • An interdisciplinary outreach model of successful minority recruitment for Alzheimer’s disease research. Gerontologist 2011 51 Suppl1:S134-S141.
  • Longitudinal progression in Clinical Dementia Rating sum of boxes. Alzheimer’s and Dementia, in press.
  • Exercise, Encyclopedia of Aging. Springer, 2006.
  • Invisible, unequal, and forgotten: health disparities in the elderly. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, Summer 2007.
  • Transformative changes to improve dementia care. PsycCRITIQUES, March 23, 2011, Vol. 56, Release 12, Article 8
  • Follow-up resources are key to health fairs’ success. American Medical News Ethics Forum, posted March 12, 2012.

Presentations:

  • Management of depression in diabetic patients: Lessons from clinical trials. Submitted for presentation at the symposium on “Seeking Serendipity: Depression Treatment in Different Health Conditions,” Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 2006.
  • Improvement in sexual functioning in depressed diabetic patients treated with Wellbutrin XL®. Psychosomatic Medicine 2006 (Suppl 1):A60. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, March, 2006.
  • Predictors of premature antidepressant discontinuation in depressed patients with type 2 diabetes: The important role of race and education level. Psychosomatic Medicine 2006 (Suppl 1):A61. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, March 2006.
  • Alcohol use does not influence longitudinal course of Alzheimer disease. Presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Madrid, Spain, July 2006.
  • The CDR distinguishes pre-MCI and normal cognition in a population-based sample of African American participants. Submitted for presentation at the International Conference on Prevention of Dementia, Washington, DC, June 2007.
  • Informant-based detection of cognitive decline in a population-based sample of African American participants. Accepted for presentation at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, April 2008.
  • Does type 2 diabetes mellitus correlate with onset, prevalence, or progression of Alzheimer’s disease? Accepted for presentation at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, May 2008.
  • Does type 2 diabetes mellitus correlate with onset, prevalence, or progression of Alzheimer’s disease? Presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Chicago, July 2008.
  • Cancer linked to Alzheimer’s disease but not vascular dementia: The Cardiovascular Health Study. Presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Chicago, July 2008.
  • Challenges to recruitment and retention of African Americans for biomarker research. Presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Chicago, July 2008.
  • Social marketing for minority recruitment in rural and urban settings. Presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Paris, July 2011
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