Dr. Kevin Williams, UCLA MD ‘86 MPH ‘91, Chief Medical Officer, Rare Disease, at Pfizer

Update: 2021-04-06

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Dr. Williams opens up about growing up black and gay in Louisiana during the 1960s and 1970s. After providing a primer about rare diseases, Dr. Williams explains how and why he ended up working at a pharmaceutical corporation in-spite of public perceptions. Pranav ties in the UCLA class of 2015’s reading of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ into the conversation.

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Dr. Kevin Williams, UCLA MD ‘86 MPH ‘91, Chief Medical Officer, Rare Disease, at Pfizer

Pranav Joshi and Nakin Bhandari

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Dr. Kevin Williams, UCLA MD ‘86 MPH ‘91, Chief Medical Officer, Rare Disease, at Pfizer

Pranav Joshi and Nakin Bhandari

Dr. Kevin Williams, UCLA MD ‘86 MPH ‘91, Chief Medical Officer, Rare Disease, at Pfizer