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John S. O’Shea, MD, FAAP
 John Stewart O'Shea was born in Baltimore in 1944, where he spent his first 26 years. His father, John Albert O'Shea, was a legal aid attorney and real estate investor, and his mother Coralie Wiegman O'Shea was a social worker. He had no siblings.
After graduating from Loyola High School and Loyola College, he received his MD from Johns Hopkins University. He then completed a pediatric residency and ambulatory pediatric fellowship (as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar) at Duke University.
He next spent 16 years as director of ambulatory pediatrics at Brown University, based at Rhode Island Hospital. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1990, where he was director of general pediatrics at Emory University for two years, and then spent eight years as director of pediatrics at the Meridian Medical Group.
He retired from pediatric practice in 2000, became a docent at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of antiquities at Emory University, and joined the boards of The Atlanta Opera, the Center for the Visually Impaired, and Catholic Charities Atlanta, being primarily involved with fund-raising.
It occurred to him about 1975 that well designed and well-enforced laws have been the only proven approach to curtailing injuries—especially in traffic, which are the main cause of death in children, teens, and young adults. He has been involved since then, initially on behalf of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and lately for the Georgia chapter, in child automobile restraint and teen driving legislation. In the 2010 Georgia legislative session, he pushed for the passage of laws that now forbid teen drivers from cell phoning and all drivers from texting.
He has had two wonderful wives. Patricia Allen O'Shea was a medical school classmate and a pediatric pathologist to whom he was married for 32 years, until she died in 2002 after minor surgery. Clara Mont-Claire O'Shea is an artist, Asia-influenced gardener and gourmet cook to whom he has been married since 2003, after meeting her as a fellow docent at the Carlos Museum.
His main hobbies are opera, pre-World War II jazz, bonsai, travel, and Clara's cooking.
For several years, he has been a fan of the Daisy Alliance, and its push for nuclear disarmament.
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