UCSF Department Of Medicine | Division of Geriatrics

Brie Williams is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics.

Dr. Williams received her MD and MS in Community Medicine from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, was an Internal Medicine Resident in the UCSF San Francisco General Hospital Primary Care Program, and was a Clinician Educator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UCSF before returning to complete a Geriatrics Clinical and Research Fellowship at UCSF.

Dr. Williams joined the UCSF Division of Geriatrics faculty in July 2007. She is a clinician-researcher, and devotes 75% of her effort toward research and 25% effort toward clinical work which includes teaching in the San Quentin Geriatrics Consultation and Teaching Clinic, attending in the ACE Unit at San Francisco General Hospital, and attending on the Hospice and Palliative Care Service at the SF VAMC. Dr. Williams’ research focuses on two primary areas: the healthcare of older adults living in poverty and the health of older adults who come into contact with the law either as perpetrators or as victims of crime. Dr. Williams has worked as a healthcare consultant to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Office of the Independent Medical Monitor in Michigan, the Department of Justice, and the San Francisco Elder Abuse Forensic Center. Dr. Williams is a recipient of the Hartford Geriatrics Health Outcomes Research Scholar Award and the Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Award for her work in this area.

Research Activities

The healthcare of older adults living in poverty.
Dr. Williams is interested in how net worth works as a predictor of healthcare utilization and health outcomes.

The intersection between geriatric medicine and the legal system.
Dr. Williams is interested in the health of older adults who come into contact with the law either as perpetrators or as victims of crime. Her recent research focuses on understanding and improving the healthcare of incarcerated older adults and of older adults who will soon be released to the community. She has also recently begun to study the health factors present at the time of arrest in older adults.

Selected Original Articles

Williams B, Lindquist K, Sudore R, Strupp H, Willmott D, Walter L. Being old and doing time: Functional impairment and adverse experiences of geriatric female prisoners. J Am Geriatric Soc. 2006; Apr;54(4):702-7.
Sudore R, Landefeld C, Williams B, Barnes D, Lindquist K, Schillinger D. Use of a modified informed consent process among vulnerable patients: A descriptive study. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Aug; 21(8):867-73.
Williams B, Lindquist K, Moody-Ayers S, Walter L, Covinsky K. Functional impairment, race, and family expectations of death. J Am Geriatric Soc. 2006; Nov;54(11):1682-7.
Baillargeon J, Soloway RD, Paar D, Giordano T, Murray O, Grady J, Williams B, Pulvino J, Raimer B. End-stage liver disease in a state prison population. Ann Epidemiol. Aug 4 2007.
Williams B, Lindquist K, Sudore R, Covinsky K, Walter L. Screening mammography in older women: The impact of wealth and prognosis. Arch Int Med. 2008 Mar 10; 168(5):514-20.
Williams B, Greifinger R. Elder care in jails and prisons: Are we prepared? Journal of Correctional Health Care. 2008;14 4-6.
Baillargeon J, Binswanger I, Penn J, Williams B, Murray O, Raimer B. The revolving prison door: Psychiatric disorders and repeat incarcerations. The American Journal of Psychiatry. In press.
Williams B, Lindquist K, Hill T, Baillargeon J, Mellow J, Greifinger R, Walter L. Caregiving Behind Bars: Correctional Officer Reports of Disability among Geriatric Prisoners. J Am Geriatric Soc. In press.
Williams B, Baillargeon J, Lindquist K, Walter L, Covinsky K, Whitson H, Steinman M. Geriatric Mediation Prescribing Practices in a Large State Prison System. The American Journal of PublicHealth. In press.

Book Chapters

Williams B, Abraldes R. Growing older: Challenges of prison and re-entry for the elderly. Chapter in Greifinger R, Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities. Springer. New York, 2007. pp. 56-72.