Donald Sheppard MD, FRCP(C), FECMM, FAAM, FASCI, FACHS

Dr. Sheppard MD, FRCP, is the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at McGill University, and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology. He is the section head of the Medical Mycology laboratory and practices Infectious Diseases at the McGill University Health Centre. His primary clinical area of interest is the human fungal disease, particularly invasive aspergillosis in the immunocompromised host.

Dr. Sheppard obtained his medical degree from the University of Toronto, Ontario in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at McGill University in 1997, followed by an infectious disease fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Sheppard returned to McGill University to pursue a medical microbiology fellowship. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, California in 2004 before establishing his research laboratory at McGill University.