http://www.william-heyward.info/ Dr. William L. Heyward was born in the beautiful city of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1950. He attended Emory University, earning a bachelors of arts in Chemistry before moving on to the Medical College of Georgia to receive his MD. He then completed his internship and his residency in Internal Medicine before joining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the CDC. It was with the CDC that Dr. Heyward would do some of his greatest and most important work. en-us