Maureen J Macdonald

Provost and Vice-President, Academic, Office of the Provost

Dr. Maureen MacDonald is an accomplished professor, respected researcher and the Dean of Science at McMaster University.. Dr. MacDonald came to McMaster as a sessional instructor in 1998, after earning an undergraduate honours chemistry degree at Acadia University and her Masters and PhD in kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. She held post-doctoral positions at Western University and the University of British Columbia.

She is a highly regarded expert in cardiovascular health, exercise physiology, spinal cord injury and aging, and leads important research into the effectiveness of exercise as a way of preventing illness, improving health status and lifestyle. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and an Associate Member of the School of Rehabilitation Science and is a member of the Exercise Metabolism Research Group.

Her research is widely published and often cited, including in the journals Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise; Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism; and the Journal of Applied Physiology, amongst others.