Dr. O’Connor, who moved to Nantucket in 2017 with his wife Maribeth and purchased a home in the mid-island area, is a Massachusetts native who grew up in Woburn. The couple has four grown children: Kelley, Francis, Alyssa, and Ryan. Dr. O’Connor has served as a staff surgeon at Naval hospitals in North Carolina, Spain, Rhode Island, and most recently at Camp Lejeune where he was also the director of a multispecialty clinic. Over his 26 years in the military, Dr. O’Connor was deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, aboard the USNS Comfort in support of Hurricane Katrina relief in 2005, as well as in Kuwait, and Djibouti in Africa.
