William Cheshire, M.D.
William.Cheshire@thecbc.org

Dr. William P. Cheshire, Jr., is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, where he received the Clinician Educator Award in 2004. Following an A.B. cum laude in biochemistry from Princeton University, he received his M.D. from West Virginia University and his M.A. in bioethics summa cum laude from Trinity International University. He completed a residency in neurology and a fellowship in pain management at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Cheshire practices medicine full time, specializing in disorders of the autonomic nervous system, headache, and neuroethics education. In 2001 he received the Outstanding Faculty Member award from the Mayo School of Continuing Medical Education. He is past Chair of the Autonomic Nervous System Section of the American Academy of Neurology and Director of the Autonomic Reflex Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Bioethics and Culture, is Director of Biotechnology Ethics for the the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, a member of the Ethics Commission of the Christian Medical Association, and an associate member of the Hastings Center. His lectures and published papers have analyzed questions of human dignity, the ethics of stem cell research, the neurobiology of moral reasoning, and cognitive enhancement. He lives on the northeast Florida coast along with his wife of 22 years and four children.