Background
MacDonald, Kenneth Gordon was born on September 6, 1954 in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Son of Kenneth Gordon and Ellen Nora (Cook) MacDonald.
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Kenneth Gordon MacDonald
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Kenneth Gordon MacDonald, American Surgeon. Diplomate American Board Surgery, National Board Medical Examiners; licensed physician North Carolina; certified Advanced Trauma Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support instructor. Ciba-Geigy Corporation grantee, 1993, Roerig/Pfizer Pharmaceuticals grantee.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Biology cum laude, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1976; Doctor of Medicine, West Virginia University, 1981.
Career
Intern in internal medicine, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Bowman-Gray School Medicine, Winston-Salem, 1981-1982; resident in general surgery, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Bowman-Gray School Medicine, Winston-Salem, 1982-1984; resident in general surgery, Pitt County Memorial Hospital/East Carolina U. School Medicine, Greenville, 1984-1986; chief resident in general surgery, Pitt County Memorial Hospital/East Carolina U. School Medicine, Greenville, 1986-1987; clinical instructor surgery, East Caroline U. School Medicine, Greenville, 1987-1988; assistant professor surgery, East Caroline U. School Medicine, Greenville, 1988-1993; associate professor surgery, East Caroline U. School Medicine, Greenville, since 1993; chief gastrointestinal surgery and surgical endoscopy, East Caroline U. School Medicine, Greenville, since 1989; director department surgery obesity research progressive, East Caroline U. School Medicine, Greenville, since 1997. Primary investigator Food and Drug Administration trial of laparoscopic adjustable silicon gastric band Bioenterics Corporation, Carpinteria, California, since 1996. Lecturer in field.
Achievements
Membership
Member of executive board East Carolina county Boy Scouts American, 1988-1993, chairman health and safety committee, since 1988. Participant 3d annual corporation spelling bee Literacy Volunteers of America/Pitt County, 1993. Fellow American College of Surgeons (1st prize for presentation 1986), Southeastern Surgical Congress.
Member American Medical Association, American Society Bariatric Surgery (chairman program committee, ex-officio member executive county 1991, 92, executive county 1992-1995, finance committee since 1995, president-elect 1995-1996, president 1996-1997), Association Academy Surgery, Association forSurg. Education, North Carolina Medical Society, Pitt County Medical Society, Society American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, Society for Surgery of Alimentary Tract, Walter J. Pories Society (founding member), Sigma Xi.
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Married Jane Ethel Miller, May19, 1979. Children: Gloria Jane, Clara Ellen, Elizabeth Jeanne.
