Robert Sanders Williams is President of Gladstone Institutes, a non-profit biomedical research enterprise and its Robert W. and Linda L. Mahley Distinguished Professor of Medicine, both since 2010. Robert is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco since 2010. Prior to this, Robert served as Senior Vice Chancellor of the Duke University School of Medicine from 2008 to 2010 and Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine from 2001 to 2008. Robert was the founding Dean of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, from 2003 to 2008 and served on its Governing Board from 2003 to 2010. From 1990 to 2001, Robert was Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Ryburn Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. Robert has been a Memebr of the Board of Directors of the Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, a diagnostic technologies company, since 2007.