Dr. Williamson currently serves as the Chief Scientific Officer for Creative Testing Solutions (CTS). CTS is the largest blood donor screening laboratory system in the world and currently performs infectious disease screening for more than 75% of the US blood supply. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Molecular Biology. He is an author on 50+ peer reviewed publications and serves as a member of the AABB Transfusion Transmitted Disease Committee, the International Society of Blood Transfusion Transmitted Disease Working Party, and as a reviewer for a variety of journals. His current research focus is the epidemiology, genetics and associated clinical manifestations of emerging infectious diseases which may be transmitted through transfusion, and the development of diagnostic systems for the rapid assessment of disease outbreaks.