HERSHEY, Pa. — Joseph MacDonald has been named vice president and chief medical officer at Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center, effective April 7. He will oversee clinical activities and resources to ensure the efficient delivery of health services aimed at achieving high-quality patient outcomes.
MacDonald will work with medical staff leaders as liaison to the employed and independent members of the medical staff, hospital and health system administration and Penn State Health Medical Group operational leadership.
Most recently, MacDonald served as chair of the Department of Medicine at UPMC Harrisburg, West Shore and UPMC Community Osteopathic. Previously, he was vice president of the medical staff at UPMC Lititz. For six years, he also served as network medical co-director, hospitalist service, for UPMC in Central Pennsylvania, leading the hospitalist service line for seven hospitals.
Before joining UPMC, MacDonald was a primary care provider and hospitalist with the former Physicians’ Alliance LTD in Lancaster from 2004 to 2017.
As a U.S. Army major and physician on active duty from 2001 to 2004, MacDonald served as battalion surgeon with the 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during combat deployment to Iraq. He received nine awards for honorable or exemplary service, including the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and Combat Medical Badge.
MacDonald earned his medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia and completed his residency in internal medicine at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He also holds an MBA from the Erivan K. Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.