AO North America named Robert A. McGuire Jr., MD, president-elect, according to a Mississippi Business Journal report.
Dr. McGuire is the M. Beckett Howorth Professor and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation and director of the orthopedic surgery residency program at the Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center. He completed a fellowship at the spinal cord injury unit/adult spine surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He has also completed a fellowship in pediatric reconstruction and scoliosis at Miami Children's Hospital.
Dr. McGuire will begin a three-year term as president of AO North America in July 2015, according to the report.
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