Born into a medical family, Willis Schaupp knew by age 12 that he wanted to be a doctor. The San Francisco Chronicle tells us that young “Willie” headed east to Harvard Medical School soon after graduating from Stanford, however New England apparently could not charm him, for he returned to California in 1950.
Before starting his surgical residency, Schaupp served as a Navy physician on the destroyer USS Bryce Canyon, off the coast of Japan. In 1948 he married his high school sweetheart, Anne Veazie. After her sudden death at the age of 42, he formed a new family with Joan Pinger.
Specializing in proctology, Schaupp became chief resident at San Francisco County Hospital and was clinical professor of surgery at the UC-San Francisco until his retirement in 2005. He loved hiking, fishing and hunting in the wilds of California.
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