This Rheumatology Center is a busy private practice with one physician which provides rheumatology services to a seven-county service area with a population of a quarter-million people. The current physicians started his practice in 2001. He practiced in several Eastern metropolitan areas before settling. The practice stresses aggressive, early treatment of inflammatory rheumatologic diseases, teaching, active engagement of referring physicians and an open-access practice style. The practice resides in a newly renovated 5,000-square-foot office equipped to provide digital X-ray reading, DXA, IV infusions, labs and patient education.