Meet dr. Laura Williams
Laura Williams was born in Santa Fe Springs, CA in 1963 and has been active in the medical field for more than 25 years.
Dr. Williams studied at Whittier College from 1981 to 1983. She transferred to the University of Southern California on an Indian Health Service Scholarship, earning her Bachelor of Science degree in 1986. Working at the Los Angeles American Indian Free Clinic in 1986, she met many physicians who were members of the Association of American Indian Physicians. They encouraged her to train as a physician, and so she left California to attend Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. While there, she joined the Association of Native American Medical Students, serving a term as president, and has since been active in the Association of American Indian Physicians. Dr. Williams credits these two groups for much of her career success.
Dr. Williams completed her family practice residency at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. She then moved east to complete the first multicultural community-oriented primary care fellowship at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.
Dr. Williams also earned a master of public health degree at Rutgers University in 1996. She next served as chief medical officer to the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Williams was assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and directed the Native American Health Research Initiative to assess the needs of the state’s urban American Indian population. The results of her research, “Native Voice for Change,” were published in 2000.
Dr. Williams was the first California Indian woman to hold a faculty position in the University of California system. In 1999, Dr. Laura Williams received the American Cancer Society Primary Care Development Award. In 2000, she was named Orange County Business Woman of the Year by the Orange County Business Journal.
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Margarita Byrum, Clinical Practice Manager
Ophelia Robles, Lead Front Office
Corinna Castillo, Lead Medical Assistant
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