Yolonda Williams

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Yolonda J. Williams, PhD, has been a college instructor and researcher. For several years starting in 2013, she worked with Dr. Leonard Jason at DePaul University for the Center for Community Research as the Project Director of a longitudinal NIH-funded prospective health study to examine the biological and psychological factors that would cause college students to develop chronic fatigue syndrome after the onset of infectious mononucleosis.

Education[edit | edit source]

(As per Curriculum Vitae[1])

  • 2004, Bachelor of Arts, Criminal Justice, Governor State University, University Park, Illinois
  • 2007, Masters of Public Administration, Governor State University Park, Illinois
  • 2012, PhD in Community Psychology from National Louis University, Chicago, Illinois

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Poster presentations[edit | edit source]

  • October 2014, Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Ecological-Community Psychology, Lisle, IL. "The role of sample recruitment in symptom prevalence rates for chronic fatigue syndrome," by McManimen, S., Williams, Y., & Jason, L.A.[5]

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. https://nanopdf.com/download/williams-yolonda-chicagoland-evaluation-association_pdf
  2. Williams, Yolonda J.; Jantke, Rachel L.; Jason, Leonard A. (2014), "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Case Definitions and Diagnostic Assessment", New York State Psychologist, 26 (4): 41–45, PMID 27594717
  3. McManimen, S. L., Jason, L. A., & Williams, Y. J. (2015). Variability in symptoms complicates utility of case definitions. Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, 3 (3), 164-172. doi:10.1080/21641846.2015.1041336
  4. Jason, Leonard A; Sunnquist, Madison; Brown, Abigail; Furst, Jacob; Cid, Marjoe; Farietta, Jillianna; Kot, Bobby; Bloomer, Craig; Nicholson, Laura; Williams, Yolonda; Jantke, Rachel; Newton, Julia L; Strand, Elin Bolle (2015), "Factor Analysis of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire: Identifying Core Domains", Journal of Neurology and Neurobiology, 1 (4), doi:10.16966/2379-7150.114
  5. https://nanopdf.com/download/williams-yolonda-chicagoland-evaluation-association_pdf