Russell Maier
Dr. Maier is a family physician in Yakima who has spent a career in integrating oral health in overall health. First as a co-leader of a community fluoridation campaign, then as co-founder of Smiles for Life, the national curriculum on oral health for all health professionals. He served as the first physician chair of an oral health foundation at WDSF, the forerunner of Arcora Foundation in Washington State. He works as Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Pacific Northwest University and currently is a Professor in Family Medicine at Pacific Northwest University and Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is married to another family physician, has three grown children and two dogs, all of whom he spends time with in the outdoors.