Olwen Williams

Olwen Williams OBE FRCP FLSW is a Consultant Physician in Genitourinary/HIV Medicine based at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, North Wales. She was appointed an OBE for services to medicine in Wales in 2005.[1] and Welsh Woman of the Year[2] in 2000.

Early life and education

Brought up in North Wales and a Welsh speaker, she was educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle and the University of Liverpool.

Career

Olwen Williams is currently Associate Director of Clinical Leadership at HEIW , she is chair elect of the Academy of Royal Colleges in Wales .As immediate past RCP Vice President for Wales she has promoted the need to increase the medical workforce and staff wellbeing . She was member of the Royal College of Physicians' RCP Committee for Health Inequalities > She also has held the positions of Vice-President of the Medical Women's Federation (2016-2018),[3] Divisional Vice-President for the NSPCC in Wales,[3] Trustee of the National AIDS Trust,[3] Honorary Fellow and Lay Member of Council of Bangor University[4] She was the clinical lead for the Royal College of Physicians' Future Hospitals project development site at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, a project using telemedicine to improve access to clinical services for the elderly and frail in rural Wales[5] through the virtual clinic C@rtref. She has also acted as an advisor to the Welsh Government and was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017[6] She served at board level and previously been president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)2018-20.

References
  1. "Dr Olwen Williams, OBE". RCP London. 6 April 2016. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  2. "Welsh Woman of the Year". 19 November 2004. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  3. "Who's who? - Medical Women's Federation". www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk. Archived from the original on 30 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  4. University, Bangor. "Lay members of the Council - About the University - Bangor University". www.bangor.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 December 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  5. "Future Hospital development site: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board". RCP London. 22 July 2015. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  6. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Olwen Williams - The Learned Society of Wales". The Learned Society of Wales. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
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