TimMarie Williams, PhD

Dr. TimMarie (Chloe’) Williams, a Governor’s Teaching Fellow, has over 20 years of Gerontological and Geriatric educational experience. In 2023, she completed the Graduate Certificate in Academic Medicine Fellowship as a Geriatric Scholar at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Williams is also a recipient of the Southern Gerontological Society’s Victor W. Marshall Fellow in Applied Gerontology for outstanding and continuing achievement that bridges the domains of original and applied research, service to government, practice with older adults, gerontology education and advocacy within gerontology.  

Before joining the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, she served as the Gerontology Program Director at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Williams is a certified National Mental Health First Aid Adult Instructor. Skilled in nonprofit organizations, research and data analysis, program planning and evaluation, curriculum development, volunteer management, policy analysis, and public speaking, Dr. Williams is an experienced bilingual educator and clinical and applied gerontology research scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry.  

Leadership beyond the classroom for Dr. Williams consists of legislative experience as a Research Policy Analyst Aide for the Texas State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services under the Honorable Senator Jane Nelson. Other past positions include the Career Development Section Faculty Chair and Executive Board for the Georgia Public Health Association; Public Health and Aging Section Chair for the Texas Public Health Association; and Co-Chair for the Southern Gerontological Society, Gerontological Education Committee. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors with the Southern Gerontological Society and is Chair of the Gerontological Education Committee and an elected member of the Texas Public Health Association’s Governing Council at Large. 

Dr. Williams’s teaching experience includes courses in research methods and evidence-based medicine, health disparities, global/international health, rural health and aging, biostatistics, survey of gerontology, U.S. health care systems, healthy aging, health care policy for older adults, theory in health education, and capstone courses for students of gerontology and public health. 

Her research interest includes public and social policy initiatives in aging, disparities among aging and minority populations, the role of technology in managing chronic health conditions, patient-provider relationships; planning for health and long-term care needs of an aging population; resistance training among older adults; and cognitive impairment and decline. 

• Bachelor's Degree in Spanish, St. Edward's University
• Master's Degree in Clinical Gerontology, Baylor University
• Ph.D. in Applied Gerontology, University of North Texas