Richard V. Williams, FACC, MD, FAAP

Languages Spoken: English

Richard V. Williams, MD is a member of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children´s Hospital. His subspecialty is noninvasive cardiac imaging. He sees patients with all forms of congenital heart disease from infancy through late adolescence in his general cardiology clinic at Primary Children's Hospital, Riverton Hospital and at an outreach clinic in Pocatello, Idaho. Dr. Williams’ research interests are focused on noninvasive evaluation of ventricular function and clinical trial conducted as part of the Pediatric Heart Network.

Dr. Williams received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia. After completing pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship training at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center he spent one year in private practice in Richmond, Virginia, before returning to academic medicine at the University of Utah.

Dr. Williams’ career as a researcher and educator began with his arrival at the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1998. Early in his career the focus of his research was the noninvasive evaluation of ventricular function in infants and children with congenital and acquired heart disease. Since 2001 Dr. Williams has been a co-investigator in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Pediatric Heart Network. His work with the Pediatric Heart Network has focused on clinical trials broadly, and improving the care of infants and children with single ventricle physiology specifically. His current area of research is growth in infants with single ventricle physiology. Dr. Williams is currently the University of Utah’s co-principal investigator for the Pediatric Heart Network.

Dr. Williams has authored more than 40 scientific papers published in peer reviewed journals, as well as numerous review articles and abstracts. He is frequently asked to speak at regional and national scientific meetings on topics ranging from echocardiographic evaluation of infants and children with heart disease to the management of children with single ventricle physiology.