George W. Williams, II, MD, FASA, FCCM, FCCP

Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Vice Chair and Division Chief, Critical Care Medicine
Director, Fellowship Graduate Medical Education
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Email:  George.W.Williams@uth.tmc.edu
Phone:  713-500-6279

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Biology, 2001
    University of Houston
  • Doctor of Medicine, 2005
    Baylor College of Medicine
  • Anesthesiology Residency Program, 2005-2009
    Univ. Hospitals Case Medical Center
  • Critical Care Fellowship, 2009-2010
    Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Areas of Interest

Clinical Interests
Resident and Fellow Education

Research Interests
Peri-operative Outcomes
Residual and Waste Volatile Anesthetic Gas  NON-FUNDED RESEARCH

1. P.I.: Wulin Wu, PhDCo-PIs: Banks, Kevin; Bekhet, Laila; Chiao, Elizabeth; Deng, Nan; Highfield, Linda; Hwang, Kevin MD; Li, Ruosha; Maroufy, Vahed; Ruppert, Susan; Talebi, Yashar; Thomas, Eric MD; Walsh, Ryan; Wang, Ningtao; Wang, Jing; Williams, George MD; Wu, Yonghui; Xu, Jun; Yu, Duo; Zhang, Kai; Zhao, Yucheng; Zhi, Degui
Predictive Modeling of Diseases using Statistical and machine learning approaches
October 2017- Present, HSC-SPH-17-0901

2. P.I.: George Williams, MD
Co-PIs: Peter Killoran, MD

Establishment of the Perioperative Workgroup for Education and Research using the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry for Purpose of Quality Control (POWER-NACOR)
June, 2016- Present, HSC-MS-16-0484

3. P.I.: Nadia Hernandez, MD
Co-PIs: Carlos Artime, MD; George Williams, MD; Renuka George, MD; Ryan Lawless, MD

Ultrasound-Guided Serratus Plane Block with Liposomal Bupivacaine for Multiple Rib Fractures: A Pilot Study
May, 2015- Present, HSC-MS-15-0080

Publications

Refereed Original Articles in Journals

1. Chaudhry R, Wegner R, Zaki JF, Pednekar G, Tse A, Kukreja N, Grewal N, Williams GW. Incidence and Outcomes of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia in Patients Undergoing Vascular Surgery. J Cardiothoracic Vasc Anesth. 2017 Oct;31(5):1751-1757. PMID: 28864160

2. Artime CA, Aijazi H, Zhang H, Syed T, Cai C, Gumbert SD, Ferrario L, C Normand K, Williams GW, Hagberg CA. Scheduled Intravenous Acetaminophen Improves Patient Satisfaction With Postcraniotomy Pain Management: A Prospective, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Study. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2017 Nov 7. PMID: 29117012

3. Chaudhry R, Zaki J, Wegner R, Pednekar G, Tse A, Sheinbaum R, Williams GW. Response to Xue et al. J Cardiothoracic Vasc Anesth. 2018 Feb 23. PMID: 29673761

4. Williams G, Grewal N, Wegner R, Contreras D, Patterson V. Regulations Regarding Operating Room Head Attire Appear Discordant With Literature. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 May 29. PMID: 29846558

5. Pivalizza EG, Ghebremichael SJ, Markham TH, Guzman-Reyes S, Nwokolo OO, Williams GW, Gumbert SD. More on Fatigue Mitigation for Anesthesiology Residents. Anesth Analg. 2018 Jun 5. PMID: 29878941