William D. Steers (August 19, 1955 – April 10, 2015) was a Paul Mellon professor and chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

[7][8] Steers was a faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine since 1988, and became chair of the Department of Urology in 1995.

Steers was a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Reproductive Medicine Advisory Panel, and chaired the National Institutes of Health's urinary incontinence and interstitial cystitis clinical trial groups.

In 2011, Steers was appointed to the advisory council at National Institutes of Health by Kathleen Sebelius and Francis Collins.

Steers' entrepreneurial activities include the development of a cell phone application to record patient symptoms, and using the internet crowdcasting to fund medical research.