{"id":4526,"date":"2025-10-07T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:47:07","slug":"dr-monika-williams-selected-for-2025-2026-passing-the-torch-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/2025\/10\/dr-monika-williams-selected-for-2025-2026-passing-the-torch-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Monika Williams Selected for 2025\u20132026 Passing the Torch Cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4298\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 253px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4298 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM-243x300.png\" alt=\"Dr. Monika Williams\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM-600x740.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM.png 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Monika Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">Monika Williams, MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Genetics &amp; Metabolism and new MPS Center team member, has been selected for the 2025\u20132026 Passing the Torch cohort \u2014 a faculty development program that advances person-centered patient care and teaching through biweekly small-group learning and a capstone \u201cpassion project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Williams focuses on the diagnosis and longitudinal care of children and adults with Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS). Her participation will strengthen our integrated, family-centered care, enhance rare-disease education, and support practical tools for patients, caregivers, and clinicians.<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate Dr. Williams and look forward to her continued contributions to the Muenzer MPS Research &amp; Treatment Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monika Williams, MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Genetics &amp; Metabolism and new MPS Center team member, has been selected for the 2025\u20132026 Passing the Torch cohort \u2014 a faculty development program that advances person-centered patient care and teaching through biweekly small-group learning and a capstone \u201cpassion project.\u201d Dr. Williams focuses on the diagnosis and longitudinal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/2025\/10\/dr-monika-williams-selected-for-2025-2026-passing-the-torch-cohort\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dr. Monika Williams Selected for 2025\u20132026 Passing the Torch Cohort\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119071,"featured_media":4298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM-243x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1312\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.08.32-PM-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/muenzer-mps-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}