William D. Turnipseed, MD
#21: 1997-1998
William Derrick Turnipseed is Professor of Surgery: Chief, Section of Vascular Surgery, and Director of the Diagnostic Laboratories at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He founded the Vascular Program at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Madison in 1976 and became Chief of Vascular Services at the University and VA Hospitals in 1983.
Born in Anacortes, Washington, in 1943, the son of a military surgeon, he traveled worldwide as a youth and moved to Orlando, Florida in 1959. He attended Emory University as an undergraduate and stayed on to complete medical school there as well. He went to Ohio State University for surgical residency and was one of the last trainees under Robert M. Zollinger, M.D. While at Ohio State, he was an NIH trainee in Transplant Immunology and the recipient of the prestigious Zollinger-Ellison Award at the end of his postgraduate training in 1974. He completed vascular fellowship training at Ohio State University, under the tutelage of William Evans, M.D., and John Vasco, M.D., in 1975.
His primary research interests include noninvasive diagnostics and the development of vascular imaging techniques. He had one of the first vascular laboratories in the Midwest and has made significant contributions to the clinical development of duplex imaging, digital subtraction, and magnetic resonance angiography. He has completed more than 200 publications and lectures dealing with subjects ranging from hypergastrinemia, transplant immunology and in-situ bypass to overuse athletic injuries, management of popliteal entrapment, and use of noninvasive vascular imaging.
Dr. Turnipseed is Past-President of the Madison Surgical Society, the Zollinger Surgical Society, and current President of the State Chapter of the American College of Surgeons in Wisconsin.
His major interests are athletics, hunting, and fishing. He excels at soccer, swimming, and cross-country skiing. His best times are spent with Sandy, his wife, and their two dogs, Chauncy and Chelsey, and cat Artie.
