William Myers, MD

Specialties

Dr. William Myers left Northshore Medical Group in 2015 to reopen a practice dedicated to care of his patients as a primary goal. Medicine has become an impersonal big medicine machine. It is time for doctors to take back the reins of medical control. This is best served by doctors individually working with their patients. At Dr Stuart Sondheimer’s office in Skokie, near his prior locations in Evanston and Skokie, Dr Myers can now arrange personalized patient care with less need for bureaucratic management. This will lead to greater doctor patient direct time and less foiling in meaningless computer data.

His new location has state of the art equipment and he is a faculty member at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he has taught and mentored residents in cataract surgery for over 30 years. He was named Teacher of the Year 3 straight years in the Ophthalmology Program there.

Dr Myers established a Resident Education fund at Northwestern making a major donation to promote resident education. Dr. Myers created the ambulatory surgery mentorship program in 2002. He has trained several classes of ophthalmologists in that role. He current researches in the field of ophthalmic pharmacology introducing intracameral (Dropless) dilation techniques to cataract surgery in the United States.

History

Established in 1960.

Evanston Ophthalmologists was established in1960 by Dr Paul Hauser and Dr Margaret Gerber. Dr Myers joined them in 1983 and became president and owner in 1987. Along the way Dr Larry Lawson and Dr Gussie Phelps arranged for Dr Myers to provide post retirement care to their patients. In 2013 Dr Myers joined NorthShore, hoping to retire after a few years. Unfortunately the corporate control did not meld well with Dr Myers desire to care for patients in a manner he was comfortable with. He has left Northshore and now will practice out of Dr Sondheimer’s office in Skokie, just around the corner from the ols Skokie office. Please call 847−677−2794 or visit Myer​s2020​.com for more information.

Meet the Business Owner

William M.

Business Owner

William Myers has practiced for 33 years in Evanston and Skokie. His new location has state of the art equipment and he is a faculty member at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he has taught and mentored residents in cataract surgery for over 30 years. He was named Teacher of the Year 3 straight years in the Ophthalmology Program there.

Dr Myers has performed more than 2000 cataract surgeries. He is an active member and part owner of Northshore Same Day Surgery Center in Lincolnwood where he performs most of his cataract procedures. He has been a speaker at the annual Resident Phacoemulsification Course at Northwestern since its inception, giving him exposure to the other best surgical teachers in the Chicago.

Dr Myers lives in Chicago with his wife Lisa and dog, Sookie a Grand Champion Bearded Collie. He has two daughters, Darienne a PhD candidate at UCSF Immunology Program and Jenna, an admissions officer at her alma mater, Bryn Mawr College.