Washington County Regional Medical Center welcomes Dr. Nicholas Orr to the Physician Specialty Clinic, where he’ll begin seeing cardiology patients in mid-August. Dr. Orr brings nearly two decades of military medicine experience to Sandersville, and a career that took him from the battlefield to the cath lab.
Dr. Orr enlisted in the Army in 2002 after earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Bowling Green State University. He later commissioned as an officer and attended the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, completing his MD in 2008. From there, he trained at Walter Reed, finishing a three-year Internal Medicine residency followed by a three-year Cardiology fellowship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2014.
His career included serving as Chief of Cardiology at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, teaching faculty for USUHS, and a deployment to Afghanistan as Command Surgeon for a Special Operations Task Force. He returned stateside to lead in clinical, academic, and administrative roles, including Chief of Medicine.
Dr. Orr specializes in general cardiology, with focuses in sports cardiology, heart disease prevention, and non-invasive cardiac CT angiography. He and his wife, Jessica, have been married 24 years and have four children. Outside the clinic, he’s active in local Scouting as a senior medical advisor and enjoys triathlon training, camping, and studying history and ancient languages.
Washington County residents can now access his cardiology expertise close to home, starting mid-August at the Physician Specialty Clinic.https://wcrmc.com/about/clinics/wcrmc-clinics/