Dr. McGregor graduated from Juniata College with high honors. He then graduated from medical school at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Dr. McGregor served as a pediatric resident followed by a 4th year as Chief Pediatric Resident all at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital and remained on the faculty as part of their prestigious Diagnostic Referral Group. From Pittsburgh Children’s he moved to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, where he ran the pediatric training program. 6 years later he decided to return to a traditional free-standing children’s hospital, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children where he spent 16 years as the Pediatric Program Director and multiple administrative roles including interim Chair of Pediatrics and Pediatrician in Chief. Dr. McGregor has received numerous teaching awards and was inducted into the honorary organization Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. McGregor has attended additional programs at Harvard School of Public Health and completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School in 2019. Most recently, he completed certification as a Healthcare Peer Coaching Practitioner through the Physician Coaching Institute graduated from the PCI Cohort of the Physician Development Coach program and is now certified as a Master Physician Development Coach as well as his work as an executive coach.
At the hospital in addition to being a board member of the hospital, he oversees all the physician and advanced practice leaders and their team members in their care delivery, physician, and APP recruitment, compensation issues and with the Chief Quality Officer reporting to him as well as the Medical Staff Office and the Wellness Committee of the medical staff. For the almost three years of covid operation, along with the Chief Operating Officer, he served as co-incident commander. As his avocation working along with the medical education teams at Summa Medical System and Akron Children’s he and Dr. Joe Varley founded a 501C3– Akron Physician Wellness Initiative (APWI – providing barrier free, concierge mental health and wellbeing services for all trainees and medical staff members for both organizations) and served as their inaugural Board Chair.
Outside of work he is active in Akron Rotary serving served on their Board and Past-President 2019-2020. He is also dedicated to his own wellbeing and resilience. Rob, a recovering marathoner, remains an avid exercise enthusiast including road cycling, weightlifting and most recently pickle ball. Rob practices Sudarshan kriya yoga (SKY Breathing) almost daily. He lives with his retired pediatrician wife, Sharon, and their 100 pound Bouvier des Flanders. Empty nesters, they have two adult daughters also in health care. (In addition he is known as PapaMac to his grandsons; Jude aged 15 mos and Caleb 3 years with a grand daughter on the way.)
Dr. McGregor officially retired from Akron Children’s Hospital’s as Chief Medical Officer in December of 2024 after 12 years in that position. He is looking forward to sharing his vast knowledge and experience to young executives and emerging physicians as an Executive Coach and Master Certified Physician Development Coach.
Dr. Rob McGregor has retired after his 12th year as Akron Children’s Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor of Pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and clinically still practices medicine as part of the pediatric hospital medicine inpatient team.
Dr. McGregor graduated from Juniata College with high honors. He then graduated from medical school at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Dr. McGregor served as a pediatric resident followed by a 4th year as Chief Pediatric Resident all at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital and remained on the faculty as part of their prestigious Diagnostic Referral Group. From Pittsburgh Children’s he moved to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, where he ran the pediatric training program. 6 years later he decided to return to a traditional free-standing children’s hospital, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children where he spent 16 years as the Pediatric Program Director and multiple administrative roles including interim Chair of Pediatrics and Pediatrician in Chief. Dr. McGregor has received numerous teaching awards and was inducted into the honorary organization Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. McGregor has attended additional programs at Harvard School of Public Health and completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School in 2019. Most recently, he completed certification as a Healthcare Peer Coaching Practitioner through the Physician Coaching Institute graduated from the PCI Cohort of the Physician Development Coach program and is now certified as a Master Physician Development Coach as well as his work as an executive coach.
At the hospital in addition to being a board member of the hospital, he oversees all the physician and advanced practice leaders and their team members in their care delivery, physician, and APP recruitment, compensation issues and with the Chief Quality Officer reporting to him as well as the Medical Staff Office and the Wellness Committee of the medical staff. For the almost three years of covid operation, along with the Chief Operating Officer, he served as co-incident commander. As his avocation working along with the medical education teams at Summa Medical System and Akron Children’s he and Dr. Joe Varley founded a 501C3– Akron Physician Wellness Initiative (APWI – providing barrier free, concierge mental health and wellbeing services for all trainees and medical staff members for both organizations) and served as their inaugural Board Chair.
Outside of work he is active in Akron Rotary serving served on their Board and Past-President 2019-2020. He is also dedicated to his own wellbeing and resilience. Rob, a recovering marathoner, remains an avid exercise enthusiast including road cycling, weightlifting and most recently pickle ball. Rob practices Sudarshan kriya yoga (SKY Breathing) almost daily. He lives with his retired pediatrician wife, Sharon, and their 100 pound Bouvier des Flanders. Empty nesters, they have two adult daughters also in health care. (In addition he is known as PapaMac to his grandsons; Jude aged 15 mos and Caleb 3 years with a grand daughter on the way.)
Dr. McGregor officially retired from Akron Children’s Hospital’s as Chief Medical Officer in December of 2024 after 12 years in that position. He is looking forward to sharing his vast knowledge and experience to young executives and emerging physicians as an Executive Coach and Master Certified Physician Development Coach.
