Russell Macdonald MD

Dr. Russell MacDonald is a specialist in emergency medicine and Canada’s first formally trained sub-specialist in emergency medical services (EMS), and has a Masters Degree in Public Health. Dr. MacDonald has worked in tertiary care teaching centres and held academic appointments in emergency medicine in both Canada and the United States. His expertise includes emergency medicine, prehospital care, critical care and air medical transport, and public health.

He has built a career as a leader in prehospital and transport medicine, and held a number of leadership positions. Dr. MacDonald is a highly sought consultant and content matter expert, and presents at conferences and symposia internationally. He serves on several industry-related boards of directors and journal editorial boards.

Dr. MacDonald is currently the medical director and chair of the Quality Care Committee at Ornge Transport Medicine, and medical advisor for Toronto Paramedic Services. He is also an associate professor and co-director of the Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. MacDonald practises emergency medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

His current work includes research in prehospital and transport medicine and supervising fellows and graduate students in medicine and engineering. He has a number of peer-reviewed publications and grants and has authored numerous textbooks chapters. He is also the editor-in-chief of Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets, Canada’s national paramedic textbook.