Clifford McDonald, MD

Dr. McDonald graduated from Northwestern University Medical School, completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Michigan State University, and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of South Alabama, following which he completed a fellowship in Medical Microbiology at Duke University. Past positions have included Associate Investigator at the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan and Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville. Dr. McDonald is a former officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service and former Chief of the Prevention and Response Branch in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC where he currently serves as the Senior Advisor for Science and Integrity in the same division. He is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications with his main interests in the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated infections, especially Clostridium difficile infections, and the prevention of antimicrobial resistance. Dr. McDonald is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and American Society for Microbiology.

Article Posts

• What You Should Know about Hand Hygiene
• Searching for C. difficile at Hospital Admission: A Commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine
• Clostridium difficile It’s Like Seeing a Train Coming…and You Can’t Get Off of the Tracks
• Using fecal transplants to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (CDI)
• Dr. Cliff on Tackling C. difficile – Part 1 of 3