Owen G. McDonald, MD, FACS

Cancer Program Administrator, 1963–1966

Owen G. McDonald, MD, FACS, served as Cancer Program Administrator for the American College of Surgeons from October 1963 to February 1966. A 1939 graduate of Rush Medical College in Chicago, Dr. McDonald interned at Receiving Hospital in Detroit, and was a fellow in surgery at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. During World War ll he served in the U.S. Army Air Force.

Dr. McDonald later served as chairman of the department of surgery at Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, IL, and as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Illinois. He was a member of the ACS Board of Governors from 1957 to 1959 and also served as the president of the Minnesota Surgical Society.

Dr. McDonald died at the age of 65 in 1977.

Written by Melissa Leeb

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