He 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. He subsequently returned to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles for a year of specialty training in Craniofacial Surgery. Dr. McDonald has spent most of his career in academic medicine teaching Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the University Of Miami School Of Medicine in Miami Florida.