Dr William Stigall MD, MA

Dr. William Stigall is a Pediatric Critical Care Physician and Bioethicist. He’s a graduate of the University of Texas Business School and University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. He underwent medical training at UTSW/Children's-Dallas for Pediatric Residency, Chief Residency, and Critical Care Fellowship. He completed an additional Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix. During residency and fellowship, Dr. Stigall obtained a Master's in Philosophy from the University of Dallas. He has been a member and chair of multiple bioethics committees and has taught bioethics at the University of Dallas for over a decade.

His loves of medicine, philosophy, and the application of knowledge to heal have coalesced in his current role as Vice President and Chief Research Officer at Cook Children’s. He still attends in Cook’s Pediatric ICU, but not as much as he would like. Along with being adjunct faculty in the Philosophy Department of the University of Dallas, Dr. Stigall is a member of the clinical faculty of the TCU School of Medicine and the Texas A&M School of Medicine.

He has spoken locally and nationally on the biopsychosocial effects of contraception and oxytocin, the practice of medicine as an Aristotelian art, and the Hippocratic Oath, among other topics. He is convinced that much more can be done to develop an evidenced based bioethics and organizations like the Hippocratic Society is a necessary first step.