Dr. McDonald is a graduate of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Dr. McDonald completed his residency in General Surgery there, including a year of research at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.  He then completed his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at New York University, after which he returned to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles for a year of specialty training in Craniofacial Surgery.  Dr. McDonald began his career in academic medicine teaching Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, for 5 years and subsequently at the University of Miami School of Medicine for 4 years.  He is currently in private practice in Miami, Florida. 

The demand for complex reconstructive surgery at a teaching university combined with the elective nature of aesthetic surgery has allowed Dr. McDonald to approach even the most challenging cases with enormous experience and the confidence of proven results.  "My transition from teaching to the private practice of Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery allows me to share with my patients the enormous benefit of my years spent training other surgeons.  I want my patients to experience the result of my immense experience."

Dr. McDonald believes strongly in freely sharing his God-given talent and exceptionally developed skill with those in desperate medical need.  He has traveled to Columbia, south America, with Operation Smile, and he has led mission teams to Gaza, Palestine.  Dr. McDonald guided a group of the University of Miami Medical School students to the Central Plateau of Haiti to perform reconstructive surgery on both the children and adults of that country. "It is truly amazing and rewarding to see doctors in their infant stages of training rise to the occasion and share the skill they have with those in need.  To help these patients in their extreme need makes all of the long hard days of work so worthwhile and meaningful." according to Dr. McDonald.  Most recently he has traveled to Cuba, joined by an elite medical team, in a teaching and training plastic surgery exchange.    

The results of Dr.McDonald's research in Plastic Surgery have been published in the most prestigious journals of Plastic Surgery including The Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Annals of Plastic Surgery, and The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. He has given scientific lectures on Wound Healing, Craniofacial Surgery, Aesthetic Surgery, and Breast Reconstruction at major Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery meetings including those hosted by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS, and the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM).

Dr. McDonald is an active member in the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), and the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons (FSPS). Additionally, he has served in the past alternately as the Secretary/Treasurer, the Vice President, and the President of the Miami Society of Plastic Surgeons.  He currently serves as a Board Member to the Dade County Medical Association and is a Florida Medical Association delegate.