William P Maier MD PC
Rheumatology Clinic
633 E 11th Ave Eugene OR 97401
Tel: (541) 434-5585
Fax: (541) 345-2821
We continue to take all precautions for your safety.
Masks are optional, but we highly recommend wearing a mask at your visit to reduce exposure to Covid and other viruses. A mask is required for our communal benefit if you are coughing. Continue to ask your family to wait outside unless one person needs to assist you physically or emotionally. We suggest you get this years' flu, Covid vaccines and Covid booster vaccine.
Welcome New Patients. Please review the website for information important to your health. Note that we will not prescribe opioid pain medication for chronic conditions. We will treat your underlying inflammatory disease.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
We understand this is a difficult time for our patients--new and old. We will continue your care and request some patience with our clinic during this time of transition.
Dr Lamichhane and Dr Elmergawy's last day at this clinic is Friday Feb 28, 2025. All Rx refills and Infusions will be handled by Dr Maier and employees as those orders will be paused after the departure of Dr Lamichhane and Dr Elmergawy.
Dr William P Maier remains the active MD rheumatologist at this clinic.
He will see new and old patients for urgent visits, refill meds, give injections, and patients may choose to infuse at the clinic monitored by Dr Maier. He will see the patients of his two former colleagues for any urgent needs, for the continuity of care issues, imaging reviews, and will attend to the patients with insurance plans not accepted by OPTUM/Oregon Medical Clinics.
We will re-open our infusion center for rheumatology and other specialty treatments in March 2025.
For information on the departing MD new schedules, please call the OPTUM/OMG rheumatology clinic (541) 741-0387 As patients and MDs ask, we will send chart notes to the OPTUM/Oregon Medical Group clinics. We expect them to begin seeing patients by late March or April.
Board-Certified Rheumatologist
William P Maier, MD has recently retired (October 31, 2024) to read more books, run on Amazon and Pre's Trail, go fishin', ride his bike more often, and especially to visit his family and grandchildren around the nation.
He wishes his patients the best health and continuing happiness!
Skill, patience, and excellence are what Dr. Maier brings to his patients.
William P. Maier, MD is a native Oregonian. While he was growing up, he lived in many towns around this beautiful state from Portland down the coast to Florence, and from Eugene over the Cascades to Bend. The family moved to several states and also to Nigeria, where Dr. Maier's father practiced medicine for several years. Dr. Maier returned to Oregon in 1991 to provide care for the residents of Lane County, and entered into private practice in 2003.
Dr. Maier graduated from college at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, magna cum-laude.
He received his four-year medical degree from the University of Arizona School of Medicine in Tucson.
He trained in Internal Medicine in Massachusetts for three years.
He completed his two-year rheumatology specialty fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he remained on faculty at the Emory School of Medicine and practiced at the Emory University Clinic for another six years until moving back to Oregon.
Dr. Maier enjoys running, biking, reading and traveling.
Teaching the next generation of physicians brings him much satisfaction, and you may be introduced to medical students and physician assistant students from OHSU --the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon and pre-med students from the University of Oregon. We also have students from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest located in Lebanon, Oregon.
You will always have the option of private appointments without medical students.
Our rheumatologists have admitting arrangements with local hospitals:
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Sacred Heart Medical Center/Hospital in the University area in Eugene
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RiverBend Hospital in Springfield OR
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McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, OR