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August 2013
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Mona Principal seconded
Professor McDonald has had an outstanding career as a surgeon in trauma and emergency medicine. A UWI graduate, he received his postgraduate DM degree in 1987. He is credited with starting the first Accident and Emergency Department in Jamaica at the University Hospital of the West Indies and, with colleagues, established the Advanced Trauma Life Support Programme in Jamaica. He also conducted seminal studies that defined the epidemiology of injury in Jamaica and which led to development of Jamaica’s Injury Surveillance System. He has published some 125 papers and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals. From 2002 to 2005 Professor McDonald served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery and then as Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mona Campus, from 2005 to 2012. While he was Dean, he led historic changes in the Faculty resulting in a complete restructuring of the MBBS curriculum, a 200% expansion in student intake and accreditation of the medical programme by the Caribbean Accreditation Authority in Medicine and the Health Professions (CAAM-HP). He spearheaded the effort to create a state of the art building on the Mona Campus: the Faculty of Medical Sciences Teaching and Research Complex. For his exceptional leadership and scholarship, he received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2008. Professor McDonald is Chair of the Jamaican Research and Education Network, a member of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network and Chairman of the Board of St Joseph’s Hospital. He will assume the Office of the Principal on September 1, 2013, the date on which Principal Gordon Shirley demits office to become President and CEO of the Port Authority of Jamaica and will continue for three years until his retirement date. Professor Shirley was seconded for three years by the Government of Jamaica primarily to oversee the expansion of the Port of Kingston and the establishment of a Logistics Centre to take advantage of the increased business expected from the widening of the Panama Canal. New Deans
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The Office of the Vice-Chancellor of The UWI has announced that Professor Archibald McDonald has been selected to succeed Professor Gordon Shirley as Principal of the Mona Campus. Professor McDonald is the current Deputy Principal of Mona, a post he has held for the past year.