John MacDonald, MD, FACS

John M Macdonald, MD, FACS, is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Notre Dame and his Medical Degree at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. Internship served at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami. Military duty as Captain (USMC) in the United States Air Force. Residency in general and thoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Fellowship in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery as Senior Registrar, St Bartholomew`s Hospital, London England.

Dr Macdonald is Board Certified in general surgery and thoracic surgery. From 1971 until 1999, he practiced thoracic and vascular surgery in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. Over the past fifteen years, Dr Macdonald has been extensively involved in the clinical and research aspects of wound care and lymphedema. He has lectured extensively both in North America and internationally. Dr Macdonald has authored numerous articles and text chapters relating to both lymphedema and wound related lymph stasis. In 2002 he was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

Dr Macdonald is currently the medical director for the University of Miami Lymphedema Clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital and attending in the Department of Dermatology wound clinic located in the Cedars Medical Center. He is the President-Elect of the Association for Advanced Wound Care (AAWC).