William Levin Sutker, MD: a conversation with the editor
William Levin Sutker, MD, and William Clifford Roberts, MD
Bill Sutker was born in Chicago in 1948, and that's where he grew up. After graduating from public high school as salutatorian, he went to the University of Illinois in Urbana and graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in physiology. He then returned to Chicago and the Chicago Medical School, where he graduated in the top 10 in his class in 1974. His internship and residency in internal medicine were at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC), and afterwards he did a 2-year fellowship in infectious diseases with Dr. Ralph Tompsett, also at BUMC. In June 1979, he entered practice with Dr. Tompsett. At the same time he became director of medical education, and he later became chief of the infectious diseases service at BUMC.
About 2 years ago, Dr. Sutker became patient safety officer and one of the medical directors of Health Care Improvement and Care Coordination at BUMC. Although these are full-time positions, he still consults on hospitalized patients with various infectious diseases. He also is medical director of intravenous services, co-medical director of employee health services, and medical director of infection control at BUMC and its specialty hospitals. Dr. Sutker is the author of 22 publications in various medical journals. He is an extremely active teacher of the internal medicine housestaff at BUMC. He and his wife, Helen, are the proud parents of three offspring and, at the moment, two grandchildren. Bill Sutker is a busy man and a major player at BUMC, and he's also a very good guy.
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