Dr. Brian J. Maguire

For two decades, Brian Maguire worked in the New York City health care system in positions including hospital administrator, agency president, board member, chair of the city-wide hospital ambulance administrators’ association, coordinator of the city-wide paramedic training program, field operations officer, educator, researcher and paramedic.

 

From 2012 to 2018 he was a professor at Central Queensland University. Professor Maguire's responsibilities included being Chair of the professoriate, a member of the Vice Chancellor's advisory committee, Ph.D supervisor and teacher. His past academic positions include: Professor, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia, where he helped lead the transition to distance education; Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director and Research Center Director, Department of Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he led the department’s master’s degree program and research center; and, Assistant Professor, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, where he helped to develop one of the first undergraduate distance education programs in health administration in the U.S.

 

His U.S. federal committee membership experience includes membership on the CDC’s National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA), Public Safety Council as well as numerous emergency medical services (EMS) committees including: national EMS safety committee; Ground Ambulance Safety Committee; EMS workforce injury and illness surveillance system committee; and, the 1995 EMS Agenda for the Future committee.

 

He worked for about three years as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where he helped communities across the U.S. prepare for bioterrorism, pandemics and disasters. He was a member of the Australian government's reference group for the National Paramedics Registration Project and, he was a member of the team that wrote the recommended disaster management higher education standards for Australia in 2017.

  

Brian has run 12 marathons and he is a Tae Kwon Do instructor, an advanced SCUBA diver and a licensed pilot.