[3] With the Informatics Department at the University of Edinburgh, MacDonald also helped establish The Voicebank Study which enables people who are at risk of losing their voice through illness to preserve it.

[4] He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours for services to people with motor neurone disease in Scotland.

[9] MacDonald died on 21 August 2024, at the age of 50, after a long battle with motor neurone disease.

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