William D. Soper, MD

William D. Soper, MD, MBA, FAAFP - Chair

Bill Soper, a Board Certified Family Physician practicing in Kansas City, Missouri, serves on the Board of Managers of TransforMED, a subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Soper began his term with the Board in June, 2008.

In addition to patient care activities Soper owns a practice management company, Medical Data Services, which provides practice management, management consulting and billing services for some 25 private practices of varying sizes and specialties.

Dr. Soper is President of Mid America Medical Affiliates, a 1500 member multi-specialty physician advocacy group that focuses on physician socioeconomic issues, primarily political action, physician satisfaction and payer negotiation. In 2005 MAMA was a leader in achieving breakthrough tort reform in Missouri.

Soper has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians since 1976 and is past president of both the Kansas City and Missouri Academies of Family Physicians. He has been a member of the Board of Editors of Family Practice Management since the publication's founding.

Dr. Soper's special interests include electronic health records (he has had a paperless office since 2000), medical office design, practice efficiency and payment optimization. He is very concerned about diminishing physician reimbursement and increasing practice costs and sees TransforMED as a tool to help reverse those trends.

Soper received his undergraduate degree from Baker University and is an Honors graduate of the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Rockhurst University. Dr. Soper is in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri, and is a member of the FPM Board of Editors. He received his bachelor's from Baker, his master's from Rockhurst University and his doctorate from the University of Missouri in Columbia.