BRUNSWICK — The board of directors, with mixed emotions, recently accepted the resignation of Dr. Peter McGuire as medical director of Oasis Health Network, Inc. McGuire, one of the founding members of Oasis, had been at the post since 1992.

McGuire has had a long and distinguished medical career. A 1962 graduate of Bowdoin College, he went on medical school at Montreal’s McGill University, graduating in 1966, and completing his internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital there in 1967.

He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1967-69, was commanding officer of the 61st Medical Detachment in Vietnam and received the Vietnam National Medal of Honor for establishing a clinic for civilian casualties in Saigon during the Tet Offensive of 1968. For his second year of active duty, he was general medical officer at Darnall Army Hospital in Fort Hood, Texas.

Returning to Maine, he completed a two-year residency in general practice at Maine Medical Center and then, in 1971, began 24 years of private practice in family medicine in Brunswick. He also became a school physician. In 1997-2000, he was an adjunct professor in the master’s program in nursing at St. Joseph’s College.

McGuire was as one of the physicians that started what would become the Oasis Health Network at the Tedford Shelter in 1992. This organization, which bears his footprint, was initially a one-room clinic to care for the needs of the shelter residents, but soon became much more, as the recognized need became more apparent. The clinic has moved five times since inception and now occupies spaces provided by Mid Coast Hospital on Baribeau Drive in Brunswick. A dental clinic was also added several years ago.

McGuire’s work and dedication has not gone without recognition. In 2005, he received the 2005 Maine Medical Association’s Mary Floyd Cushman Award for humanitarian service. In 2007, he received the Common Good Award from his alma mater Bowdoin College. In 2011, he received the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce Harry Crooker Lifetime Achievement Award, and was profiled on WCSH’s “Six Who Care” series on community leaders. He was also the recipient of the 2012 Maine Public Health Association’s Phebe Conrey King Access to Health Care Award.

McGuire and his wife of 45 years, Marcy, live in Brunswick. They have two sons, both of whom are English teachers.

Dr. Richard Corbin has accepted the position as the new medical director and will continue the work of Oasis Health Network and its clinics. A resident of Phippsburg, Corbin has been a volunteer provider at Oasis since 2011 and recently retired from the Maine VA hospital in Togus.

McGuire will also continue to support the Oasis Health Network by serving as a board member.

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