Dr. Braedon McDonald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine. Originally from Crossfield, AB, Dr. McDonald trained in microbiology and immunology at McGill University in Montreal, followed by MD as well as PhD training in immunology at the University of Calgary. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of British Columbia, followed by a fellowship in adult Critical Care Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine. Dr. McDonald completed a CIHR- and AIHS-funded postdoctoral fellowship in microbiome research at the University of Calgary’s International Microbiome Centre. Dr. McDonald is a clinician-scientist in the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases and International Microbiome Centre, where he leads a translational and basic science research program on microbiome-immune interactions in infection and critical illness. Dr. McDonald’s clinical practice focuses on multi-systems intensive care, and he is an attending intensivist in the ICU at FMC, RGH, and SHC.