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:''This article is about the radiologist. For the chorister and chaplain, see [[Bernard Williams (choir director)]].''
'''Bernard H. Williams''' (born c. [[1930]]; died March [[1992]]) was a pioneer in the Nuclear Medicine Technology Program in the [[UAB Department of Radiology]], and a founding member of the [[Alabama Society of Nuclear Medicine]].

Williams graduated from [[Parker High School]] and earned a bachelor's degree at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia and a graduate degree in medical technology at Maharry Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee in [[1954]]. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the [[Korean War]], and then returned to [[Birmingham]] and applied to work at the [[Birmingham VA Medical Center]].

Despite his credentials, Williams was assigned a job as a technician in the hospital's animal laboratory. He married the former [[Nadean Williams|Nadean Saffold]], a music teacher, in [[1958]] and spent time studying endocrinology at Memorial Hospital in New York City in [[1959]].

[[James Pittman]] befriended him and became a mentor, encouraging his promotion to Radiation Safety Officer, and later bringing him to the [[University of Alabama School of Medicine]]. He joined the faculty in [[1966]] as one of the only African Americans at the university.

Williams left UAB for training at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

==References==
* "Birmingham Chemist and Wife Cited as Happy Career Couple" (December 16, 1961) ''The Pittsburgh Courier''

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