Bill Truels, M.D., has practiced general surgery in Oklahoma City for the last fifty years. He is a native of Chicago, Illinois, where he attended college at Northwestern University, graduating in 1967. He then studied at Indiana University, where he received a Master's Degree in Biochemistry. In 1973, Bill graduated from University of Illinois Medical School, then went on to the University of Oklahoma and St. Anthony Hospital for his general surgery training. Bill married Margaret Bettis, a nurse from Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1975. They have three children, Lisa, Tracy, and Michael, and three grandchildren, Jaedn, Liam, and Emmitt. Bill achieved board certification in general surgery in 1981 and currently practices as the Wound Medical Director at the Select Specialty Hospital in Oklahoma City.