Board of Directors
R. Sanders Williams, M.D.
President, Robert W. and Linda L. Mahley Distinguished Professor, The J. David Gladstone Institutes and Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Williams, age 63, has been President and Robert W. and Linda L. Mahley Distinguished Professor of The J. David Gladstone Institutes, a non-profit research enterprise, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, since March 2010. From 2007 to 2010, Dr. Williams was the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Duke University Medical Center and Dean of Duke University School of Medicine from 2001 to 2007. Dr. Williams joined the Duke faculty in 1980 as an assistant professor of medicine, physiology and cell biology.