Kevin O'Connor (physician)

O'Connor attended college at St. Bonaventure University on a US Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship, graduating with a major in biology and minor in theology.[2][1] In 1992, he graduated medical school from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.[1] He completed residency training in family medicine at The Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey,[3] where he served as chief resident in 1995. He also completed U.S. Army flight surgeon training and was designated a master flight surgeon in 2010.[4]

O’Connor served 22 years in the U.S. Army, including tours of duty with the 82nd Airborne Division, 75th Ranger Regiment, and United States Army Special Operations Command, and over a decade at the White House.[5] O'Connor has received the Combat Medic Badge.[1] He is on faculty at George Washington University, where he served as the founding director of executive medicine.[3][4] He worked for three years in the George W. Bush administration.[6] In 2013, he was inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit.[3] He was appointed to serve as White House physician in 2006 under the Bush administration.[7] In 2009, O'Connor was named physician to the Vice President.[8] In 2017, O'Connor retired from the US Army as Colonel.[7] In January 2020, he was appointed medical director of St. Bonaventure University's Franciscan Health Care Professions program.[2] According to Biden's memoir Promise Me, Dad, O'Connor worked closely with the Biden family during Beau Biden's battle with brain cancer.[6]