Dr. William Soper is a board-certified general surgeon with more than twenty five
years of experience in the practice of general surgery. He received his medical
degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and completed
his surgical residency at the University of Illinois Medical Center.
Dr. Soper also completed a two-year Fellowship in Transplant Surgery at Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston. Following his training, Dr. Soper served as Director
of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Illinois Medical Center
and as Associate Director of Transplantation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for
12 years. He has been practicing general surgery in the northwest suburbs since
1994 and has held several leadership positions at area hospitals including Chief
of General Surgery at Northwest Community Hospital and President of the Illinois
Transplant Society.
Additionally, he has held leadership positions in many other local and national
organizations including the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American
Cancer Society Reach to Recovery program. He has published numerous articles in
national journals in the areas of transplantation and general surgery and is a member
of many national surgical societies. Dr. Soper is experienced in all types of general
surgery with special interest in dialysis access surgery, hernia, breast, gallbladder
and colon surgery as well as advanced laparoscopic surgery of the abdomen.