September Williams

September Williams is an American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker.The romances and characters she writes exist in a realm punctuated by diversity,much as has her clinical practice and life. All of her work focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation. She is a member of the National Writers Union(UAW local 1981/AFL-CIO), and an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists. Born in Kansas city, September was raised in California. Her mother a progressive activist, September completed her first academic degree in Winnipeg, Canada. She graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine, followed by Cook County Hospital's Internal Medicine residency and a Surgical Hyperalimentation & Nutrition fellowship.These all focused her interest in bioethics and film. She was a Lowell T. Coggleshall Fellow at the University of Chicago's McClean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. There she was particularly influenced by the late film director-physicist-bioethicist Dr. Stephen Toulman, She began to explore film and media impact on peoples' autonomy related to expectations of medicine and science. September also owes her film and television interest to her childhood relationships with writer Guy Endore and writer-producer Joanna Lee. September began learning her filmmaking/script writing craft in the Screenwriting and Directing MFA program at Columbia College, Chicago. There she studied with the indomitable filmmaker and educator Paul Hettel. She was a National Endowment for Humanities Institute Fellow in Black Film during the inception of the Zora Neal Hurston Institute for Documentary Studies at the University of Central Florida. September served as a part of the inaugural team opening the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. She was the center's first physician ethicist and communications specialist. She is a contributor to, and reviewer of, books related to film and bioethics. She also blogs on popular film and television at bioethicsscreenreflections.com, with the goal of providing analysis of films with sometimes hidden bio-ethical significance for educators and students in film and medicine. Williams has been consultant to a number of filmmakers, television directors, producers and writers. In her unique role as medical ethicist and filmmaker, she has appeared in and provided research for film and television broadcasts, as well as clinical medical ethics consultation, through the non profit Ninth Month Consults. Williams is a writer/director/producer of short films including Shared Decisions ( 1992) and Dance for Joy (2008). She also made the feature length documentaries, A conversation on Moral Intuition ( 2001) about the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee Alabama, as well as the 2015 feature length When We Are Asked:About Crossing Over. September Williams makes films through Ninth Month Productions; a part of the Cross Quarter Publishing Group. Prolific filmmaker, editor, founding member of Kartemquin Films, and Media Monster, Sharon Karp, has worked with Williams since 1991. September Williams next film project is called the Ecology of Aging. September is the author of the novel Chasing Mercury. Available in 2017, it is a romance set in the time when human mercury poisoning was first identified in North America. September Williams lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, has two adult millennial children and is an avid open water rower.