(July 25, 1930 – December 31, 2011) was an American surgeon and educator distinguished in the field of organ transplantation.
He did an internship at the Confederate Memorial Medical Center, now Louisiana State University Medical Center, in Shreveport, Louisiana, then he served in the United States Air Force for two years at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
[1] He then did a general surgery residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1963,[2] staying on as a faculty member in that institution between 1963 and 1968.
He then became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport.
[5][6] Dr. McDonald held the offices of President of the United Network for Organ Sharing and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.