William Chapman

William Chapman grew up in North Carolina, USA where he attended the University of North Carolina graduating in 1980, and subsequently graduating from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1984. He received his surgical training at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee including a two-year postdoctoral fellowship and completing his Chief Resident Year in 1991. He then completed a fellowship in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation at King's College Hospital in London, England before returning to the faculty at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in the Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation. In 2002, he was recruited to Washington University as Professor and Chief of the Section of Abdominal Transplantation, and in 2007 he was asked to assume the directorship of the Division of General Surgery in addition to his role as Chief of the Transplant Section. In 2009 he was appointed as the Surgical Director of the newly created Transplant Center, and in 2012 he was named as the Eugene M Bricker chair in surgery at Washington University.

Dr. Chapman has been an active member in many surgical societies including serving as Program Chair of the AHPBA for the 2008-2009 year, and as Secretary for 2010-2012. He is currently Chair of the Business Practice Committee for the American Society of Transplant Surgery (ASTS) and was recently named as a Director of the American Board of Surgery. He serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Transplantation (AJT), Transplantation, HPB, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, and the Annals of Surgery.

Dr. Chapman's research interests include an active basic science research laboratory investigating ischemia reperfusion injury, especially in the setting of hepatic steatosis and liver transplantation. In addition, he has an active interest in image-guided liver surgery maintaining active funding from National Institute of Health and numerous pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials. He is a co-author of over 175 journal articles and fifty book chapters.

Dr. Chapman's clinical interests include liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. He is married with three children and resides in St. Louis, Missouri.

William Chapman, MD
Professor and Chief, Section of Transplantation and Division of General Surgery
Washington University in St Louis,
St Louis, Missouri