Dr. William Zeichner, a longstanding practicing physician in Natchitoches, is in his first year as Northwestern State’s head team physician.
Zeichner began his surgical and family practice in Natchitoches in 1986 and has served the community in various roles, including an earlier stint as the Lady Demon soccer team’s volunteer doctor from 2006-11.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Zeichner is an undergraduate of University of Vermont, who earned his MD from Guadalajara (UAG) and completed his five-year surgical residency at Detroit Medical Center.
Zeichner followed his residency by taking a fellowship in transplantation surgery and a vascular fellowship at Atlanta Medical Center (Medical College of Georgia). He then was a clinical assistant professor at LSUS harvesting kidneys in 1985.
Zeichner currently is Chief of Staff at Natchitoches Regional Medical Center where he has been on active staff in surgery and emergency medicine with special privileges in wound care/hyperbaric medicine, robotic surgery and endoscopy. He has a fellowship in the American College of Surgeons, International College of Surgeons and American Professional Wound Care Association. He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Society of Addiction Medicine, is board eligible in Addiction Medicine and is a Credentialed ImPACT Consultant (CIC) in traumatic brain injury. He is ATLS, ACLS, PALS certified.
Zeichner and his wife, Trish, have two sons, Daniel and Ben, both of whom followed their father’s footsteps in the medical profession.
