Dr. Gregory A. Antoine is the former Fayetteville North Carolina VA Medical Center Chief of Staff serving over 75,000 veterans. He spent 12 years as Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine and had a dual faculty appointment in the both the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and the Department of Surgery. He held the rank of both Associate Professor of Surgery and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Prior to his Boston University appointment, he served as an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Dr. Antoine was the first African – American plastic surgeon to lead an academic plastic surgery division at a nonhistorically Black Medical School in the United States.
Dr. Antoine is a veteran of both the United States Navy and the United States Army retiring with the rank of Colonel from the Army. He holds a Doctorate of Medicine degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an undergraduate degree from Jackson State College. He completed his Otolaryngology training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He then completed a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency at the Georgetown University School of Medicine followed by fellowship training in Cranio – Maxillofacial Surgery at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Antoine earned a Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, a Master’s degree in Project and Program Management from Brandies University and a Master of Public Administration degree from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He holds an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and a certificate in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution from Harvard Law School.
He is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Society of University Otolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He is certified by both the American Board of Otolaryngology and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He has served as an examiner for the American Board of Plastic Surgery Inc. oral certifying examination and has served on the Board of Trustees of the National Medical Association. He is a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. During the years of the Black student movement and the fatal shooting that occurred on Friday, May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College, a historically Black college (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Antoine was a student on campus at the time. After the shooting he testified before a congressional panel on campus unrest and was selected as a student representative who traveled to Washington, DC to meet with the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon’s domestic advisor on campus unrest.