Dr. McGuire received his undergraduate degree from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas and his medical degree in 1993 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, inducted into the AOA medical honor society. He completed internal medicine residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and cardiology fellowship at Duke University, where he also spent 2 research years at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) working on a number of large-scale, international clinical trials and registries. He served as the DCRI Chief Fellow 1999-2000, and during his research years, obtained a Masters Degree in Health Sciences-Clinical Trials from the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. McGuire joined the cardiology faculty at UT-Southwestern in August, 2001 where he is presently Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate of the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center, and Director of the Parkland Hospital and Health System Outpatient Cardiology clinics. His main clinical and research interests are in the long-term prevention of and risk-modification for cardiovascular disease, especially among the population of patients with diabetes. He is actively involved in studying the effects of a number of therapeutic intervention strategies among patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is senior editor of Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, associate editor of the American Heart Journal, a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, Chair of the AHA Diabetes Committee, Co-chair of the ACC Diabetes Education initiative, and a member of the FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee.
