Amanda Pedersen Williams
Amanda P. Williams, MD, MPH, FACOG is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist
and strategic physician leader focused on eliminating health disparities and leveraging
virtual care. She currently oversees clinical innovations for the California Maternal
Quality Care Collaborative at Stanford University where she is joining the adjunct
faculty. Additionally, she advises digital women’s health endeavors such as RiskLD, Nike
Fitness Club- motherhood program and nascent startups via High Alpha Innovation. She
is clinically based at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center where until Summer
2022 she served as Director of Maternity Services. She also led the maternity continuum
for the Chiefs of OBGYN across 15 medical centers and 44,000 annual births in Northern
California. Dr. Williams’ research topics have included: expansion of abortion access,
contraception continuation, peripartum depression and minimally invasive
hysterectomies.
Dr. Williams is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA
where she majored in American Medical History and Biochemistry. She completed her
medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA where she also
received a master’s degree in public health, focusing on health policy and management.
She completed her graduate medical training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The
University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Williams has served on multiple state and national committees, including currently
the California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review. After hours, Dr. Williams can be
found hiking in the redwoods, taking cardio-hip hop dance class, mentoring women of
color in the medical pipeline or attending her teenage boys’ endless sports activities.