A native of Iowa, Bill currently resides with his wife, Mimi, in Portola Valley, California.

WILLIAM GEORGE MEFFERT, MD

B.A. Duke University
M.D. Yale Medical School
Six year surgical residency, Yale University
Winchester Scholar in cardiothoracic surgical research, Yale University.

• Army combat surgeon in Vietnam.
• Cardiovascular surgery for 30 years in Iowa.
• Volunteer surgeon Haiti, Russia, and China.
• Consulting Professor for Stanford University, Department of Surgery
• An active member of  Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford
• Certified flight instructor

Literary interest is primarily short fiction; stories published in AOPA pilot magazine, The Vietnam  Archive, The Evergreen Review, The MacGuffin, The Helix Magazine, Ars Medica., and others. Published in the first edition of The Pegasus Review at Stanford.

Presented live: First Do No Harm at The Nocturnists in San Francisco and a podcast at The Nocturnists. 2018, 2019.

A  nonfiction book: There Were no Flowers/ A Surgeons Story of War, Family, and Love, has just been completed and published, September 2022.