Dr. Patrick MacDonald is a Professor of pharmacology at the University of Alberta and the Director of the Alberta Diabetes Institute (ADI) Isletcore.

A patient-oriented researcher living with type 1 diabetes.

Researching better health outcomes for pregnant people living with diabetes.

Documented some of Canada’s first cases of type 2 diabetes in children in the late 1980s.

Nephrologist, Chair of the Board of the Banting Research Foundation and Executive Director of Diabetes Action Canada.