(Fig. 1)William G. (Bill) Ellis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Iowa, primarily in the small town of Mount Pleasant. He graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1953 and from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1957. He did his internship at Cook County in 1957–1958 (where he fell in love with Chicago) and did his neurology residency at the University of Iowa (1958–1961), studying with Adolph Sachs, Maurice Van Allen, and Robert Joynt. As a neurology resident, he published a report on the neurological complications associated with trampolines (1).

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William G. Ellis, MD 1932 年 6 月 12 日 - 2021 年 1 月 16 日

（图 1）William G. (Bill) Ellis 出生于俄亥俄州辛辛那提市，在爱荷华州长大，主要是在芒特普莱森特小镇。他于 1953 年毕业于爱荷华卫斯理学院，1957 年毕业于爱荷华大学医学院。 1957-1958 年在库克县实习（在那里他爱上了芝加哥），并在爱荷华大学做了神经学住院医师(1958–1961)，师从阿道夫·萨克斯、莫里斯·范·艾伦和罗伯特·乔伊特。作为一名神经内科住院医师，他发表了一份关于与蹦床相关的神经系统并发症的报告 (1)。