Jill M. Williams, MD

Jill M. Williams, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at the Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ.  She received her medical degree at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed psychiatry residency training at Duke University. The focus of Dr. Williams work has been in addressing tobacco in individuals with mental illness or other addictions through treatment and systems interventions. Her work has been published in journals including JAMA, Nicotine and Tobacco Research and featured in US News and World Report. She is Medical Director for the TCTTAC Program in NYC, in collaboration with Center for Practice Innovation at Columbia University.  In 2015 she was the recipient of the Remarkable Achievement Award of the NJ Psychiatric Association. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and former Chairperson for the APA Council on Addiction Psychiatry.  She is co-author of the 2025 book entitled, Treating Addiction to Tobacco and Nicotine Products, a Guidebook for Clinicians, published by APA Press.