Dr. William Taylor has been involved in the treatment of cancer for over 25 years. When asked about his longevity, he said, “There is absolutely no other career in which you see the power of human will and the strength of human love on display daily, than when you observe families struggling with something as catastrophic as cancer.”

Dr. Taylor was a private practitioner for many years and served as medical director of the Baptist Breast Health Center in Montgomery. While in Montgomery, he also served as a clinical instructor and lecturer for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Internal Medicine Program.

Dr. Taylor is a graduate of the UAB Medical School where he also completed his internship and residency. He fulfilled his fellowship in medical oncology at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. and remained in North Carolina to begin his career in Hickory, N.C. After five years, Dr. Taylor returned to Alabama and has spent the last 18 years serving his fellow Alabamians.

As a private practitioner Dr. Taylor has kept abreast of the latest cancer research and treatments available for his patients. For many years, he has had a keen interest in cancer cell biology, tumor microenvirnonment, and angiogenesis, and what biologically can be altered or understood to help better customize cancer treatment. At the MCI, he hopes to bring his experience and knowledge of treating cancer not only into a new clinical practice on the Gulf Coast, but to the research lab as well.

Attracted by the “bench to bedside” philosophy integral to the MCI, Dr. Taylor plans to continue in his efforts to “personalize” cancer treatment. “I was drawn to the MCI where there is a focus on the interdisciplinary approach to treatment, where both research and clinical staff collaborate to design treatment that is tailor made for that person’s cancer.”