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Tanishia A. Williams, MD, PhD

Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Resident, Division of Neurology

Phone: 513-636-4222

Email: tanishia.williams@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Neurodevelopmental disabilities; child neurology (cerebral palsy, epilepsy, migraine); developmental-behavioral pediatrics (autism, spina bifida, non-accidental brain trauma, ADHD, intellectual disability)

Biography

Tanishia Williams, MD, PhD is a neurodevelopmental disabilities resident with over 10 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities. She has published multiple papers on her research looking at molecular genetic markers of autism. She is currently doing genomic research in autism and regression in the Division of Pediatric Neurology.

Dr. Williams has clinical interests in treating developmental disabilities, such as autism, ADHD, spina bifida, Down syndrome, and intellectual disability, as well as neurologic diseases such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and migraine. In addition to her duties in the Neurology and DDBP resident clinics, she also performs developmental assessments in the post-traumatic brain injury clinic through the Mayerson Center. She has a special interest in following and treating long-term developmental delays in patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury, especially from non-accidental trauma.

Education and Training

PhD: University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, 2004.

MD: University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway/New Brunswick, NJ, 2007.

Residency: University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Pediatrics Residency, New Brunswick, NJ, 2007-2009.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency, 2009-present (expected completion 8/31/2013).

Publications

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Carr-Schmidt A, Valente L, Loik VI, Williams T, Starita LM, Kinzy TG. Mutations in Elongation Factor 1b, a Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor, Enhance Translational Fidelity. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1999; 19(8): 5257-5266.

Buyske S, Williams TA, Mars AE, Stenroos ES, Ming SX, Wang R, Sreenath M, Factura MF, Reddy C, Lambert GH, Johnson WG. Analysis of case-parent trios at a locus with a deletion allele: association of GSTM1 with autism. BMC Genetics. 2006; 7: 8 (9 pages).

Golbe LI, Di Iorio G, Markopoulou K, Athanassiadou A, Papapetropoulos S, Watts RL, Vance JM, Bonifati V, Williams TA, Spychala JR, Stenroos ES, Johnson WG. Glutathione S-Transferase Polymorphisms and Onset Age in a-Synuclein A53T Mutant Parkinson’s Disease. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B (Neuropsychiatric Genetics). 2007; 144B(2): 254–258.

Williams TA, Mars AE, Buyske SG, Stenroos ES, Wang R, Factura-Santiago MF, Lambert GH, Johnson WG. Risk of Autistic Disorder in Affected Offspring of Mothers With a Glutathione S-Transferase P1 Haplotype. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. 2007; 161(4): 356-361.

Johnson WG, Buyske S, Mars AE, Sreenath M, Stenroos ES, Williams TA, Stein R, Lambert GH. HLA-DR4 as a Risk Allele for Autism Acting in Mothers of Probands Possibly During Pregnancy. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. 2009; 163(6): 542-546.