AO Past President Robert McGuire: "Surgeon volunteerism is the greatest thing the AO has to offer"

By: Vidula Bhoyroo, Project Manager/Medical Writer, AO Education Institute

Robert Alton McGuire completed his medical studies at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, United States, and his postgraduate training, internship, and residency at the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA, United States. He currently works for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Mississippi Methodist Rehabilitation Center, Jackson, MS, United States. McGuire has taught in the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center since 1994. He previously taught at the University of Health and Science, Bethesda, MD, United States (1987–1990), and at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, United States (1986–1990). 

McGuire has served the AO in a wide range of leadership roles: AO North America (AO NA) President (2015–16), AO NA Spine Board member since 2003, InSpine editor since 2004, a member of the AO NA Degenerative Spine Committee since 2005, AO NA Chairperson from 2006-09, AO Technical Commission (AO TC) Spine member and chairperson, and member of the AO Technical Commission Executive Board (AO TCEB) from 2010-16.