Our Founder
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“I am so fortunate that I love taking care of patients. This is an honor I am grateful for everyday.”
Dr. Maeve O’Connor provides a more progressive approach for treating allergy, asthma and immunology patients. She is Board Certified by both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. She is one of only three specialists to have completed the University of Arizona Fellowship of Integrative Medicine, and has been selected by her peers to be included in the Best Doctors of America database from 2011 to currently.
Dr. O’Connor has been one of Charlotte Magazine’s “Top Doctors” for both Adult Allergy/Immunology and Pediatric Allergy/Immunology from 2007-currently. Additionally, Dr. O’Connor is listed in North Carolina’s Best Doctors. She treats patients of all ages and is fluent in Spanish.
Dr. O’Connor is the only board certified allergist in the region offering sublingual immunotherapy, and is also performing clinical research. She has published research articles on desensitization immunotherapy, asthma, and food allergy. She is currently involved in clinical research of asthma, allergic rhinitis, immune deficiency and novel treatment for atopic diseases.
Dr. O’Connor performs volunteer Annual Asthma Screening events to help identify those patients in the community who may have untreated asthma. She also participates in Physicians Reach Out, a nonprofit outreach program that provides free primary and specialty medical visits to eligible uninsured residents in Mecklenburg County. Dr. O’Connor lectures extensively on all subjects involving allergy/immunology locally, nationally and internationally.
Dr. O’Connor is a Fellow of the American College of Asthma Allergy and Immunology, where she currently serves on the Board of Regents, and as Secretary of the House of Delegates.
Dr. O’Connor is originally from South Carolina, and she and her husband enjoy traveling, cooking, decorating, throwing dinner parties with close friends and volunteering in the Charlotte community. They have one son.
Education:
University of South Carolina, South Carolina Honors College (Columbia, SC) – Bachelor of Science Degree, Biology + Bachelor of Arts Degree, Spanish
University of South Carolina School of Medicine (Columbia, SC)
Internship & Residency at the University of Texas and affiliated hospitals, serving as Chief Medical Resident (Houston, TX)
Allergy & Immunology Fellowship training at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, which has been voted the number one respiratory hospital in the U.S. for the last fifteen years (Denver, CO)
University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine 2013-2015[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]