Olwen Williams


Olwen Williams OBE is a Consultant Physician in Genitourinary/HIV Medicine based at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, North Wales. She was awarded an OBE for services to medicine in Wales in 2005. and Welsh Woman of the Year in 2000.

Early life and education

Brought up in North Wales and a Welsh speaker, she was educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle and the University of Liverpool.

Career

Olwen Williams sits on the Royal College of Physicians' Joint Specialty Committee for Genitourinary Medicine. She also holds the positions of Vice-President of the Medical Women's Federation, Divisional Vice-President for the NSPCC in Wales, Trustee of the National AIDS Trust, Honorary Fellow and Lay Member of Council of Bangor University
She is clinical lead for the Royal College of Physicians' Future Hospitals project development site at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, a project using telemedicine to improve access to clinical services for the elderly and frail in rural Wales through the virtual clinic C@rtref. She has also acted as an advisor to the Welsh Government and was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017

Awards and honours