After 40 years of practice and 12 years in the C-Suite, Dr. Rob McGregor retired as Akron Children’s Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer and his clinical practice of medicine as part of the pediatric hospital medicine inpatient team at the end of 2024.
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 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, Philadelphia, PA, where he spent 16 years as the Pediatric Program Director and multiple additional administrative roles including Pediatrician in Chief and interim Chair Department of Pediatrics. He was an active educator locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. McGregor was very involved in the American Academy of Pediatrics as a presenter then then ran the AAP course PREP: The Course for 8 years. He was also involved in leadership roles within the Association of Pediatric Program Directors serving on the board and president of the organization. Dr. McGregor served the National Board of Medical Examiners as a question writer, received numerous teaching awards and was inducted into the honorary organization Alpha Omega Alpha.
Dr. McGregor attended additional leadership and business programs at Harvard School of Public Health and completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School in 2019. He pursued additional training as Healthcare Peer Coaching Practitioner through the Physician
Coaching Institute (PCI) as a pre-requisite and became certified as a Master Physician Development Coach as a Physician Executive Coach also through PCI and is recognized by the International Coaching Foundation (ICF).
At Akron Children’s, he oversaw all the physician and advanced practice leaders and their team members in their care delivery, quality, physician and APP recruitment and compensation. The Medical Staff Office and he spearheaded the Provider Wellness Committee of the medical staff also reported to him. For almost three years of covid operation, along with the Chief Operating Officer, he served as co-incident commander. As his avocation, he worked along with Dr. Joe Varley – Chair of Psychiatry at an associated adult hospital system (SUMMA health), to create 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 the inaugural Board Chair.
Outside of work he is active in Akron Rotary serving on their Board and is the 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 and weightlifting. 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 2 and Caleb age 4 and has a one-month-old granddaughter, Clara.)
Dr. McGregor continues with his medical school appointment, Professor of Pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University plans to continue oversight and direction of APWI as well as feed his broad experience forward as he further develops his coaching, teaching and advising business – SageAdvizors.
After 40 years of practice and 12 years in the C-Suite, Dr. Rob McGregor retired as Akron Children’s Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer and his clinical practice of medicine as part of the pediatric hospital medicine inpatient team at the end of 2024.
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 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, Philadelphia, PA, where he spent 16 years as the Pediatric Program Director and multiple additional administrative roles including Pediatrician in Chief and interim Chair Department of Pediatrics. He was an active educator locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. McGregor was very involved in the American Academy of Pediatrics as a presenter then then ran the AAP course PREP: The Course for 8 years. He was also involved in leadership roles within the Association of Pediatric Program Directors serving on the board and president of the organization. Dr. McGregor served the National Board of Medical Examiners as a question writer, received numerous teaching awards and was inducted into the honorary organization Alpha Omega Alpha.
Dr. McGregor attended additional leadership and business programs at Harvard School of Public Health and completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School in 2019. He pursued additional training as Healthcare Peer Coaching Practitioner through the Physician
Coaching Institute (PCI) as a pre-requisite and became certified as a Master Physician Development Coach as a Physician Executive Coach also through PCI and is recognized by the International Coaching Foundation (ICF).
At Akron Children’s, he oversaw all the physician and advanced practice leaders and their team members in their care delivery, quality, physician and APP recruitment and compensation. The Medical Staff Office and he spearheaded the Provider Wellness Committee of the medical staff also reported to him. For almost three years of covid operation, along with the Chief Operating Officer, he served as co-incident commander. As his avocation, he worked along with Dr. Joe Varley – Chair of Psychiatry at an associated adult hospital system (SUMMA health), to create 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 the inaugural Board Chair.
Outside of work he is active in Akron Rotary serving on their Board and is the 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 and weightlifting. 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 2 and Caleb age 4 and has a one-month-old granddaughter, Clara.)
Dr. McGregor continues with his medical school appointment, Professor of Pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University plans to continue oversight and direction of APWI as well as feed his broad experience forward as he further develops his coaching, teaching and advising business – SageAdvizors.
