Paul Tennyson Williams (1925- ) had his own medical practice in Delaware, Ohio until 1974. In 1974 academic family medicine was initiated at Ohio State as a division of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Williams is recruited and appointed Professor and Chair. Under Williams’ leadership in 1974, the Division of Family Medicine received full accreditation for its Family Practice Residency Program, the first university-based family practice residency program in Ohio.

The Medical Heritage Center has an archival collection about Dr. Williams and the finding aid for that can be viewed at https://hsl.osu.edu/mhc/pdf/p-tennyson-williams-md-collection