Dr. McGuire has been in Nursing since 1978 starting as a CNA in a small hospital in Maine. He went on to become an RN in 1985, an Acute Care NP in 1998 at UCLA, and finished a PhD at UCLA in Nursing with a biobehavioral focus in 2011. Along the way he earned a BS in Business Administration at the University of New England in 1989. Dr. McGuire has many years of clinical, education, and research experience. He has published several peer reviewed articles to disseminate his research of depression and cardiovascular disease. He serves on several national committees and reviews research abstracts and research articles for several professional journals. Dr. McGuire has taught many years in California at all levels of nursing and retired from California State University, Long Beach in 2016 to return to his home State of Maine where he served as a Professor and Chair of the Nursing Department at St. Joseph's College of Maine until 2021. He currently serves as an Associate Professor, Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Nursing Programs in the College of Nursing here at USF. He was inducted as a Fellow in the American Heart Association in 2013, Inductee into the Western Academy of Nursing and awarded Distinguished Alumni at UCLA School of Nursing in 2019. In 2026, he was inducted as a Fellow in the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.