Faculty

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Education:

• BS - Magna cum laude, Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (1999-2003)
• MS - Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (2003-2004)
• MD - University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK (2007-2011)

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Board Certification(s):

• Clinical Informatics, American Board of Pathology
• Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology

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Residency:

• Clinical Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City (2011-2014)

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Fellowship:

• Clinical Informatics, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI (2015-2017)

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Memberships:

• Association for Pathology Informatics

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Clinical/Research Interests:

• Interested in exploring User Exerpience (UX) design within the laboratory context and how it contribues to patient safety and staff satisfaction.
• Investigating opportunites for continued laboratory automation, especially in reducing manual transciption erros and novel uses for AI/LLMs to increase quality and reduce errors.

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Select Honors & Accomplishments:

• Ronald L. Gillum Service Award, OUHSC Department of Pathology (2021, 2023)

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Select Publications:

1. Allen RA, Williams CL, Penrod Y, McCloskey C, Carpenter-Azevedo K, Huard RC, King E, Terence Dunn S. A pyrosequencing protocol for rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2 variants. J Med Virol. 2022 Aug;94(8):3661-3668. doi: 10.1002/jmv.27770. Epub 2022 Apr 21. PMID: 35416308; PMCID: PMC9088475.
2. Abel JT, Ouillette P, Williams CL, Blau J, Cheng J, Yao K, Lee WY, Cornish TC, Balis UGJ, McClintock DS. Display Characteristics and Their Impact on Digital Pathology: A Current Review of Pathologists' Future "Microscope". J Pathol Inform. 2020 Aug 11;11:23. doi: 10.4103/jpi.jpi_38_20. PMID: 33042602; PMCID: PMC7518209.
3. Williams CL, McClintock DS, Balis UGJ. The Case for an Entropic Simian in Your Laboratory: The Case for Laboratory Information System Failure Scenario Testing in the Live Production Environment. J Pathol Inform. 2018 Apr 2;9:7. doi: 10.4103/jpi.jpi_96_16. PMID: 29692944; PMCID: PMC5896166.
4. Williams CL, Sica JC, Killen RT, Balis UG. The growing need for microservices in bioinformatics. J Pathol Inform. 2016 Nov 29;7:45. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.194835. PMID: 27994937; PMCID: PMC5139451.