Michael Philip O’Leary was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, to a lifelong Boston Athletic Association (BAA) member, who was also a former physician of Walter Brown.
[3] In 1978 he gained admission to the George Washington University School of Medicine, from where he graduated in 1980 and also received a Masters in Public Health from Harvard the same year [3] Between 1980 and 1982 he was resident at Tufts University School of Medicine, and then at Massachusetts General Hospital until 1987.
[11] This he notes may be prevented by simple lifestyle changes like losing weight, exercising, and stopping smoking.
[14] O’Leary is married to Kathleen J. Welch, a retired anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
[4] They live in Dedham, Massachusetts,[2] and have two children, Jacqueline, a marketing director for Dunkin' Donuts,[15] and James, a physician in vascular surgery at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.