Dionne Williams, PhD

Dionne Williams is the current Janssen-Drexel Psychiatric Drug Development Fellow, where she spends 70% of her time working in the Neuropsychiatry Division of Janssen Pharmaceuticals and 30% of the time working in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University School of Medicine.

She graduated with a doctoral degree in neuroscience from Delaware State University. Her research investigated the effects of a chemotherapy compound in a rotenone-induced toxicity Drosophila model.

At the Medical Cannabis Research Center, she is involved in managing a clinical study to examine whether medical cannabis impacts quality of life outcomes in patients living with HIV as well as other comorbid conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and neuropathic pain.