Francesca (FW) Williamson, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist and qualitative methodologist by training, specializing in social interactional research, equitable learning systems, and health equity. Francesca leads the HEiRS Lab, a research collective investigating how real-world health, learning, and research practices and processes enable or hinder equity and justice within and beyond learning health systems. She uses multiple methods and ethnomethodology/conversation analysis approaches to collect and analyze audio and video recordings of real-world face-to-face and technology-mediated patient-provider encounters in various health contexts. Most recently, she has studied healthcare interactions in pediatric oncology and urology settings, focusing on decision-making and disease evaluation activities that elicit or warrant significant emotional responses, hesitance, distrust, or decisional dilemmas. Francesa is currently a Putnam Scholar with the Academy of Communication in Healthcare. Her primary goal is to forward research and praxis to advance more humanizing, healing interactions, systems of care, and futures.