Dr Cheryl Kay McDonald | Infectious Disease Doctor Fort Worth, Dallas TX

Dr. McDonald is a Fort Worth native who attended Vanderbilt University for undergraduate education and then went to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School for her MD. She completed her internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and her infectious disease fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, Colorado, where she was on faculty as an Instructor in Medicine. She moved back to Fort Worth in 1998 to join TCIDA, where she enjoys caring for a diverse group of patients. She is active in the HIV community; she served on the Board of Directors for AIDS Outreach Center since 2007 as well as having served in numerous leadership capacities at THR Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital. She has been featured as one of Fort Worth Magazine’s “Top/Best Doctors” every year for many years. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, reading and travel.

Undergraduate

Place: Vanderbilt University
Year: 1985
Degree: B.S.
Major/ Program: Molecular Biology and Mathematics
Distinction: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Medical School

Place: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Year: 1989
Degree: M.D.
Distinction: Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar, Alpha Omega Alpha

Place: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Year: 1990
Major/ Program: Internal Medicine

Place: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Year: 1992
Major/ Program: Internal Medicine
Distinction: Chief Resident

Place: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Year: 1997
Major/ Program: Infectious Disease

Place: American Board of Internal Medicine
Year: 1993
Place: American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease
Year: 1996
Place: State of Texas Medical License