Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Katina Williams was named vice president of finance and chief financial officer for The Johns Hopkins Hospital effective effective Sept. 1, 2021.

Insightful and collaborative, Williams brings to The Johns Hopkins Hospital years of experience supporting the tripartite mission of academic health organizations. For the past three years, she has served as assistant vice president and divisional chief finance officer at Duke University Health System, overseeing its primary and urgent care network and integrative medicine, as well as ambulatory surgical, diagnostic testing, and endoscopy centers.

Williams began her tenure at Duke Health in 2000 as a financial analyst at Duke University Hospital. Throughout her senior-level roles, she designed new financial models to improve performance and margins, developed comprehensive strategic work plans, participated in care redesign, and facilitated process improvements.

A native of North Carolina, Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from North Carolina A&T State University and a Master of Business Administration from North Carolina University. She completed Duke’s Executive Leadership Academy.

In her free time, Katina mentors students from historically Black colleges and universities as a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Dedicated to helping the community, she has volunteered with nonprofits and civic organizations including Habitat for Humanity, March of Dimes, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.