McLeod Health welcomes Robert O’Connor, MD, and Michael Warden, MD, to the medical staff.

Dr. O’Connor joins the medical staff and McLeod Anesthesia. He serves patients and provides care at McLeod Health Loris and McLeod Health Seacoast. Dr. O’Connor comes to McLeod from Pennsylvania, where he served as Staff Anesthesiologist and Past Director of the Anesthesiology Department for Doylestown Hospital. He continues more than 20 years of service as physician. Dr. O’Connor received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completed an internship at Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital of Darby, Pennsylvania, and his Anesthesiology Residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. He also served as GMO and Flight Surgeon with the United States Air Force as part of the 6th MAS 438 MAW at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, as well as during Operation Desert Storm. Dr. O’Connor and his wife, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Jeneen Joyce, share eight children and three dogs, and enjoy fostering rescue animals as well. Please join us in welcoming Dr. O’Connor to the medical staff and coastal region of our McLeod Community.

Dr. Warden, an Interventional Pain Management Specialist, joins Dr. Andrew Rhea, Dr. William Naso, Dr. Tripp Hines, Dr. Catherine Tannahill, and Dr. Chadley Runyan serving patients at Florence Neurosurgery and Spine at McLeod Health. Dr. Warden spent his formative years in Missouri and Idaho. He comes from a family of physicians continuing a legacy of commitment to caring for others. Dr. Warden received his medical degree from the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences in Toledo, Ohio. He completed his residency training in Anesthesia at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, followed by returning to the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences for Fellowship training in Pain Management. He provides treatment for patients with chronic back, neck, joint and nerve pain with a variety of therapeutic options, not only medications but also interventional and minimally invasive procedures. Areas of focus include spinal cord stimulation, neuromodulation, and kyphoplasty (compression fracture relief). Dr. Warden and his wife, Lauren, have four children, three boys and a girl. Please join us in welcoming them to McLeod family and the Florence community. For more information, call 843-673-0122.