Eric R. Williams, MD

Eric Williams is the associate dean of student affairs and career advising and associate professor of neuropsychiatry and behavioral science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia. He also works with the Prisma Health Midlands ACT team.

He earned his medical degree from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and completed his general residency and child and adolescent fellowship with the Palmetto Health Alliance/University of South Carolina School of Medicine.

He has worked in an academic setting, an acute adolescent inpatient unit, an autism clinic, in juvenile justice, with college students, and as a traveling psychiatrist prior to his current positions.

• Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
• Doctor of Medicine (MD), Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Residency in General Psychiatry, USC School of Medicine/Palmetto Health Alliance
• Fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, USC School of Medicine/Palmetto Health Alliance

• Board-certified in Adult Psychiatry
• Board-certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Jeanne Spurlock Minority Fellowship Achievement Award, American Psychiatric Association, 2024
• Lifetime Achievement Award, South Carolina American Psychiatric Association District Branch and South Carolina American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Regional Organization, 2024
• Alpha Omega Alpha, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia, 2019

• Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
• Fellow, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Member, Black Psychiatrists of America
• Member, Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists