Draft:Greg Maguire

Greg Maguire (born January 29,1958) is an American scientist, educator, author and entrepreneur. He has been a professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. Maguire is the author of: Adult Stem Cell Released Molecules: A Paradigm Shift to Systems Therapeutics; Thinking and Eating for Two: The Science of Using Systems 1 and 2 Thinking to Nourish Self and Symbionts; The Medicalization of America: How Physicians Usurped from Scientists the Term Doctor and their White Lab Coats, Medicalized US Healthcare, and Built the World's Worst and Most Expensive “Healthcare” System. He is founder of the healthcare companies, BioRegenerative Sciences Inc and NeoGenesis Inc.

Maguire and his laboratory at UCSD discovered the cannabinoid signaling system in the eye and retina, and later he developed the concept of "systems therapeutics for physiological renormalization" emanating from his work at UC Berkeley and UCSD. He holds a number of US patents on this technology.

Maguire's maternal grandfather is Charles Hoffner of Philadelphia, a PGA champion who played on the first US Ryder Cup team. Through his mother, Doris, whose mother was Anna E. Smith of Philadelphia, Maguire is a descendant of Robert Morris, Jr., one of America's founding fathers. Maguire's paternal grandfather, Lawrence Maguire, was an entrepreneur and invented a hybrid automobile that ran on either gasoline or kerosene.