George P. Maguire, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the New York Medical College. He has also held the academic appointment of Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at New York Medical College. Currently, Dr. Maguire serves as the Medical Director of the Respiratory Therapy Program, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, New York. He is the Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Westchester County Medical Center , the Medical Director/Co-Director: Respiratory Care Step Down Unit 6 SW, Westchester Medical Center, and the Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy, Westchester Medical Center Dr. Maguire received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, and continued his post graduate training with an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Kings County Hospital Center, SUNY Downstate Medical Center and a two-year Fellowship in Pulmonary Disease, also at Kings County Hospital Center, where he was chosen as the Chief Resident in Medicine, Pulmonary Division from 1977-1978. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine. Over the course of his career, Dr. Maguire has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Preventive Pulmonary Academic Award, National Institutes of Health, the American Lung Association Fellowship (1975-1978); he was appointed a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He also was awarded the Teacher of the Year Award (1989-1990) in the Department of Medicine, Westchester County Medical Center. Dr. Maguire is a member of numerous medical societies including the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Physicians, the New York Trudeau Society, the Lambda Beta Society; National Honor Society for the Profession of Respiratory Care, and the Eastern Section of American Thoracic Society. He has served and currently serves on a number of Hospital Committees at Westchester County Medical Center, including the Pharmacy Committee, the Credentials Committee, the Resuscitation Committee and the Infection Control Committee. At New York Medical College, he currently serves on the Faculty Senate and Graduate Medical Advisory Committee. Dr. Maguire also spent 7 years on the Medical School Admissions Committee. In addition to the above positions, Dr. Maguire has served on several National (NIH) Committees, including the Preventive Pulmonary Academic Award: Curriculum Committee, Special Review Committee: Tuberculosis Academic Award, and the Workshop on Asthma Outcome Measures. Moreover, following previous roles on the Board of Directors and Vice-President, from 1995-1997, Dr. Maguire was the President of the American Lung Association of Hudson Valley Dr. Maguire has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed scholarly articles, abstracts and reviews in his fields of expertise. He has presented his research as an invited speaker at a number of national conferences. Dr. Maguire has also been an invited reviewer for the following journals: Chest, Archives Internal Medicine, AGE, Complications in Surgery, and Heart Disease.