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Director of Translational Health Psychology
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals
Natalie A. Williams, PhD is the Director of the Translational Health Psychology Research Center within the Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals. Dr. Williams completed her BA at Colgate University and earned a Master’s degree in Psychology and a dual PhD in Clinical and Developmental Psychology from the University of Missouri. She then completed a residency in Clinical Psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Dr. Williams’ holds an academic appointment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has published over 35 peer-reviewed research papers in areas such as family caregivers’ stress and coping, health behaviors, and psychological adaptation following injury and illness including COVID-19. She is a Licensed Psychologist and provides outpatient neuropsychological evaluations at Madonna TherapyPlus Main Campus in Lincoln, NE for Madonna’s post-Covid treatment program. Dr. Williams currently serves as the lead clinician-researcher psychologist within Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals’ Model System of Rehabilitation Care for Patients Post-COVID-19 (Federal Award Identification Numbers: SLFRP1965 and SLFRP1615). She is also serving on a multicenter NIH-funded study focused on the neurologic consequences of COVID-19.