John Clifton McDonald

Background

McDonald, John Clifton was born on July 25, 1930 in Baldwyn, Mississippi, United States. Son of Edgar Hone and Ethel (Knight) McDonald.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Mississippi College, 1951; Doctor of Medicine Tulane University, 1955.

Career

Intern, Confederate Memorial Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1955-1956; assistant resident, Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo, 1958-1962; resident, Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo, 1962-1963; from assistant attending surgeon to attending surgeon, Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo, 1963-1968; associate director surgical research laboratory, Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo, 1965-1968; from assistant attending surgeon to attending surgeon, Deaconess Hospital, Buffalo, 1965-1969; head section transplantation, Deaconess Hospital, Buffalo, 1966-1968; director transplantation, Charity Hospital of Louisiana, New Orleans, 1969-1977; visiting surgeon, Charity Hospital of Louisiana, New Orleans, 1969-1977; clinical assistant surgeon, Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, 1969-1977; member medical staff, Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans, 1969-1977; associate member department surgery, Hotel Dieu Hospital, 1969-1977; surgeon in chief, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, since 1977; professor, department chairman surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, since 1977. Assistant professor surgery State University of New York-Buffalo, 1965-1968. Consultant surgeon various Louisiana Hospitals, 1969-1977.

Director Louisiana Organ Procurement Program, 1971-1977. Consultant N.W. Louisiana Emergency Medical Services, since 1977. Buswell research fellow inimmunology State University of New York-Buffalo, 1963-1965, instructor surgery, 1963-1965, associate professor, 1965-1968.

Associate professor surgery Tulane University School Medicine, 1969-1972, professor, 1972-1977, associate professor microbiology and immunology, 1969-1977, director surgical research laboratories, 1969-1977, director transplantation laboratories, 1969-1977, director Medical Center Histocampatability Testing Laboratory, 1969-1977.

Achievements

• John Clifton McDonald has been listed as a noteworthy Surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to captain United States Air Force, 1956-1958. Member American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, American Association Clinical Histocompatability Testing (founding), American Association Immunologists, American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, American Society Transplant Surgeons (founding, president 1987), Buffalo Surgical Society(secretary 1968), Southern Surgical Association (Arthur H. Shipley award 1972, treasurer 1988-1991, secretary 1991-1993, president 1993-1994), Surgical Association Louisiana (director since 1977, president 1983), American Association for Surgery of Trauma, Transplantation Society, Southeastern Surgical Congress, American Surgical Association, Halsted Society (president 1991), Society U. Surgeons, Louisiana Medical Society, Shreveport Medical Society, United Networkfor Organ Sharing (president 1986-1988), American Association Endocrine Surgeons, Am.Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, International Liver Transplantation Society, Society Critical Car Medicine, Society Laparoendoscopic Surgeons.

Connections

Married Martha Dennis, September 9, 1956. Children: Melissa Lee, Karen Ann, Martha Knight.

Father:

Edgar Hone McDonald

Mother:

Ethel (Knight) McDonald

Spouse:

Martha Dennis

child:

Martha Knight McDonald

child:

Melissa Lee McDonald

child:

Karen Ann McDonald