He attended the
Medical University of South Carolina for his
MD degree, where he then trained in both
neurology and
psychiatry residencies. After this, he "joined the faculty at
Stanford University School of Medicine, where he rose to the rank of Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and was Director of the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab." SAINT is also referred to as SNT, for Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy, in the medical literature. It was first called "spaced-TMS, but as ... Williams saw how powerful it was, he changed the name to the more angelic 'SAINT TMS' ... Then, he had to change it again, after a journal reviewer complained that we shouldn't mix religious language with medical treatment. So, SAINT became SNT." In 2024, he became an elected member of the
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. ==Personal life==