Stacey Williams, PhD

Panel Topic: Changing the Future: Empowered Patients Driving PCOS Advocacy, Research and Drug Development

Panel Topic: PCOS and Mental Health

Dr. Stacey Williams is a social-health psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at East Tennessee State University. She directs the Social Issues and Relations Laboratory where she and her students conduct research on issues central to women and sexual and gender minorities. She has published dozens of articles in the areas of stigma and sexual and gender minority stress and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. Most recently, she has applied her psychological science to understanding psychosocial and gender-diverse experiences of polycystic ovary syndrome. She has published a book encouraging psychological scientists to study the severely understudied condition of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), The Psychology of PCOS. In her professorship, she teaches psychology courses on topics related to diversity, gender, and sexuality. She is part of the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP) and is a member of several divisions of APA (9, 35, 44).