Kevin O'Connor (physician)
Kevin O'Connor, D.O., FAAFP is an American physician and retired U.S. Army Colonel serving as the physician to the president. Education. 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. In 1992, he graduated medical school from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed residency training in family medicine at The Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey, 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. Career. 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. O'Connor has received the Combat Medic Badge. He is on faculty at George Washington University, where he served as the founding director of executive medicine. In 2013, he was inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit. He was appointed to serve as White House physician in 2006 under the Bush Administration. In 2009, O'Connor was  named physician to the Vice President. Since 2009, he has been Joe Biden's primary care physician. In 2017, O'Connor retired from the US Army as Colonel. In January 2020, he was appointed medical director of St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Health Care Professions program. White House physician. A few days after his inauguration, president Joe Biden announced that he would appoint O'Connor as the White House physician. His predecessor, Dr. Sean Conley, was physician to president Donald Trump and departed the White House alongside Trump on January 20, 2021.