Dr. Timothy W. McGuire is a highly respected board-certified bariatric and general surgeon who has been in practice since 2003. After obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree from Oakland University in 1984 and his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry in 1993, Dr. McGuire went on to earn his medical degree from Wayne State University in 1998. He completed his residency training in 2003 at the Detroit Medical Center before deciding to relocate his family to Washington NC to begin private practice in general surgery. With a desire to expand his surgical armamentarium, he returned to Wayne State University in 2008 and completed an advanced laparoscopic fellowship directed at gastrointestinal procedures including bariatric (weight loss) surgery. Dr. McGuire is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons.