Elevate Your Health Colorado Mary E. Maguire, MD

I grew up in Denver, went to college at Colorado State University and received my medical school degree and Pediatric training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. I decided to be a pediatrician when I was 8 years old — influenced by my love of my pediatrician, my then desire to have 10 children of my own, and my amazement that by eating a polio vaccine-infused sugar cube at school, I would be spared a fate incurred by my mother: spending a summer in an iron lung for poliomyelitis.

I became a pediatrician, worked with my mentor, and had just three children of my own after marrying a molecular biologist/virologist nearly 30 years ago. Our oldest son graduated from the University of Miami in music performance and is currently a free-lance percussionist in the Bay Area. Our middle son is attending the University of Denver as an Environmental Science major and swimming as a varsity athlete. Our youngest daughter is finishing her senior year in high school and will be studying large animal science in a pre-vet program at college. In our spare time, my husband and I enjoy experiencing eclectic music in San Francisco, attending swim meets in Denver, and mucking stalls in Aurora.