William P Maier MD PC
Rheumatology Specialist Clinic
Welcome New Patients. Please review information important to your health.
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Masks are optional, but we highly recommend wearing a mask at your visit to reduce exposure to Covid and other viruses.
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A mask is required for our communal benefit if you are coughing.
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Continue to ask your family to wait outside unless one person needs to assist you physically or emotionally.
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We suggest you get this years' flu, Covid vaccines and Covid booster vaccines and other vaccines recommended by your physicians and care providers.
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We continue to take all precautions for your safety.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Updates on departing physicians
We understand this is a difficult time for our patients--new and established. We will continue your care and request patience with our clinic during this time of transition.
Dr Lamichhane and Dr Elmergawy had their last day at this clinic on Friday Feb 28, 2025.
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Please call the OPTUM/OMG rheumatology clinic (541) 741-0387 for accurate information on the departing MD 's new schedules.
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Dr Maier and employees will handle the departing MD's Rx refills, imaging orders, and Infusions orders as those orders are paused after the departure of Dr Lamichhane and Dr Elmergawy.
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This clinic will send any requested chart notes to the clinic of your choice including the OPTUM/Oregon Medical Group clinics.
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Link to our Patient Letter addressing 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 established patients for
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continuation-of-care-visits: you will get an appointment reminder
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urgent visits, injections including biologics; infusions at the clinic monitored by Dr Maier.
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He will see the patients of his two former colleagues for any urgent needs, for the continuity of care issues, and order reviews
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And, he will attend to the patients with insurance plans not accepted by other clinics or by the OPTUM/Oregon Medical Clinics
We are very pleased to announce the re-opening of our infusion center for rheumatology and multi-specialty treatments .
Board-Certified Rheumatologist
William P Maier, MD
has recently TRIED TO retire --oops!
...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...
But nope! He returns to a part-time schedule to care for patients not able to be seen by other rheumatologists in the area due to insurance.
Skill, patience, active listening, 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