Dr. Zoë Williams, MD, is a tenured Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, where she serves as Chief of the Neuro-ophthalmology Service and Fellowship Director at the Flaum Eye Institute. Her research expertise centers on afferent visual pathway disorders, including stroke-related visual deficits, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy, and chiasmal compression. She has served as Principal or Site Principal Investigator on multiple national and multicenter clinical trials and as Co-Investigator on an NIH-funded R01 project integrating functional MRI and behavioral neuroscience. Professor Williams has an H-index of 14 and I-index of 16, with publications in leading peer-reviewed journals and authoritative book chapters. Her interdisciplinary collaborations across neurology, neurosurgery, and cognitive sciences have advanced diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, delivering measurable clinical and societal impact in neuro-ophthalmic care.