 And if they don't know it, we're going to make sure they know it because that's what's most important. Williams graduated cum laude from Harvard, earned his MD from SUNY in 1962, and returned to Harvard for his cardiology fellowship and to become a cardiology instructor. He went west to open the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital in Watts and to establish the King Drew Sickle Cell Center. And he also headed a hospital's cardiology department. Williams founded the Association of Black Cardiologists in 1974.