Emily McDonald

Emily McDonald, MD, MSc McGill University Health Centre

Principal Investigator:

2015 Catalyst Grant Program — Reducing post-discharge potentially inappropriate medications amongst the elderly: a multi-centre electronic deprescribing intervention (CAT 2015-TG2)

Emily McDonald, MD, MSc, FRCPC is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at McGill University in General Internal Medicine and an Attending Physician at the MUHC. She completed her residency training and Masters in Epidemiology at McGill University as well as post-graduate training in patient safety and quality improvement at the University of Toronto. Along with Dr. Lee she was the recipient of a CIHR grant to study deprescribing of medications in at-risk hospitalized older adults. Dr. McDonald’s research focus in on polypharmacy and the implementation of deprescribing in older adults.