Michael McDonald

Biography for Michael McDonald, MD, FRCPC

After completing his undergraduate studies in Life Sciences at Queen’s University, Dr. McDonald obtained his medical degree at the University of Ottawa.  He subsequently completed internal medicine and cardiology training at the University of Alberta, followed by subspecialty fellowship training in advanced heart failure/transplantation and in implantable device therapy at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto. 

Dr. McDonald joined the Division of Cardiology at the University Health Network/Mount Sinai Hospital in 2010 as an assistant professor, where his clinical focus is the management of patients with advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation and implantable device therapy.  He has received a number of teaching awards and citations, and in 2015 was the recipient of the Anderson Teaching Award for Education Administration at the University of Toronto.  He has been the Advanced Heart Failure/Transplantation Fellowship Program Director since 2011 and the Director of Education for the Toronto Transplant Institute since 2014.  He is currently the president of the Canadian Cardiac Transplant Network and co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society’s Heart Failure Guidelines Committee.