Department of Medicine Faculty Profile

Kim Williams
Section of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
Director, Nuclear Cardiology
e-mail: kwilliam@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Referring Physician Access Line: 1-877-DOM-2730

Training:

Degree	Year	Institution	Area
BA	1975	The University of Chicago	Biology
MD	1979	The University of Chicago
Residency	1982	Emory University	Internal Medicine
Fellowship	1985	The University of Chicago	Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology
Fellowship	1986	The University of Chicago	Nuclear Medicine

Academic Interests:

Dr. Williams is interested in the measurement of ventricular function, evaluation of right ventricular function with scintigraphic techniques, detection of multivessel or “balanced” ischemia on SPECT perfusion imaging, stress perfusion imaging with adenosine A2a receptor agonists, and evaluation of myocardial perfusion and cardiac risk stratification in patients with obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Clinical Interests:

Nuclear cardiology, PET/CT imaging, cardiac imaging in obesity and metabolic syndrome, exercise physiology, myocardial viability, ventricular function, ischemic heart disease.

Representative Publications:

Klocke FJ, Baird MG, Bateman TM, Berman DS, Carabello BA, Cerqueira MD, DeMaria AN, Kennedy JW, Lorell BH, Messer JV, O'Gara PT, Russell RO Jr., St. John Sutton MG, Udelson JE, Verani MS, Williams KA. ACC/AHA/ASNC guidelines for the clinical use of cardiac radionuclide imaging: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASNC Committee to Revise the 1995 Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Radionuclide Imaging). (2003). American College of Cardiology Web Site.
Williams KA, Schuster RA, Williams KA Jr., Schneider CM, Pokharna HK. Correct Spatial Normalization of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Improves Detection of Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2003 Jul-Aug;10(4):353-60
Williams KA, Hill KA, Schneider CM. Non-Cardiac Findings on Dual Isotope Myocardial Perfusion SPECT. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2003 Jul-Aug;10(4):395-402.
Williams KA, Schneider CM. Increased stress right ventricular activity on dual isotope perfusion SPECT: A sign of multivessel and/or left main coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 34(2):420-7, 1999
Williams KA, Bryant TA, Taillon LA. First-pass radionuclide angiographic analysis with two regions of interest: Improved "substitutability" for gated equilibrium ejection fractions. J Nucl Med 39(11):1857-1861, 1998.