Darren McGuire MD, MHSc

Darren McGuire, MD, MHSc, is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern. He is also the director of the Parkland Hospital and Health System Outpatient Cardiology clinics. Dr. McGuire earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern. He then received advanced training in cardiology through a fellowship at Duke University, where he also conducted research for two years, working on a number of large-scale, international clinical trials and registries at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). He also earned a master’s degree in health sciences in clinical trials from the Duke University School of Medicine.

He joined the cardiology faculty at UT Southwestern in 2001. His main clinical and research interests are in the long-term prevention of and risk-modification for cardiovascular disease, especially among patients with diabetes. He is senior associate editor of Circulation, senior editor of Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, a fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the National Lipid Association, a former chair of the AHA Diabetes Committee, and a former member of and present ad hoc consultant for the FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee.

Dr. McGuire has received numerous teaching awards, most notably the UT System Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award in 2013.