Oneeka Williams (born March 2, 1966) is a urologic surgeon, writer, and children's book author known for her book series Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo. She currently works at

Emerson Hospital Emerson Hospital is a hospital located in Concord, Massachusetts, at 133 Old Road to Nine Acre Corner, founded in 1911 on donated by Charles Emerson, a nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a full-service, non-profit community hospital and acute ...

's Urology Department and is a clinical assistant professor of urology at

Tufts University School of Medicine The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a Private university, private research university in Massachusetts. It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in down ...

Early life

Oneeka Williams was born in

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. Then, early on in life she moved to Barbados where her mother worked as a science teacher and her father worked as a journalist.

Career

Medical career

She graduated from

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

with a BA in biophysics,

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...

with an MD, and

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 ...

with a MPH. Oneeka Williams completed her surgical internship at

Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of Harvard Medical School/Harvar ...

in Boston, MA, and her residency at

Lahey Clinic The Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, formerly known as the Lahey Clinic, is a physician-led nonprofit teaching hospital of UMass Chan Medical School based in Burlington, Massachusetts. The hospital was founded in Boston in 1923 by surgeon Frank ...

in Burlington, MA. Oneeka Williams is currently working as a urologic surgeon in Concord, MA at Emerson Urology.

Writing career

Williams is founder and CEO of Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo, LLC located in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Williams has published seven books. These include five books for the Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo series, an autobiography, and one book in her new series "Not Even the Sky is the Limit."

Publications

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Series

* Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Mission to Pluto (March 5, 2013) *Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Saturn Surprise (February 3, 2015) *Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Bee More Breakthru Coloring & Activity Book (October 4, 2016) *Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Vineyard Vacation (January 1, 2018) *Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Ice Worm Intervention (April 5, 2018)

Not Even the Sky is the Limit Series

* My Joy Tank (January 1, 2019)

Independent books

* Not Today, Negativity!: 5 Habits of Positivity to Cope, Hope, and Be Well in Tough Times (August 17, 2021)

References

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