In celebration of Black History Month, we are continuing our "Where it Starts” series, a collection of personal stories that highlight some of the incredible accomplishments of the University’s Black community, featuring University of Minnesota faculty, students, and alumni. Each story reflects upon overcoming obstacles, building community, and finding purpose. The series is a collaborative project between University Relations and a team of content advisors from the University’s Black community.

Anthony Williams

Physician, associate program director of the U of M’s Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program, and associate director of the Center for the Art of Medicine’s Storytelling in Medicine Program at the U of M Medical School. 

Anthony Williams is a physician whose moving stories of race and marginalized communities in healthcare demonstrate the power of the arts in medicine. His moving stories of race and marginalized communities in health care have been featured in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, and in Twin Cities Public Television specials.

“Stories have power,” says Anthony Williams, an internal medicine and pediatrics physician and associate program director of the U of M’s Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program.

Read Anthony's story here.