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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1999

Marian P. McDonald, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Assn of Women Surgeons

Additional Information

Gender

Female

General Surgery

5496 Applebutter Hill Road

Coopersburg, PA 18036

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Dr. McDonald was trained at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation followed by a fellowship in Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Lahey Clinic in Boston. Her practice continues to encompass General Surgery with an emphasis on minimally invasive surgery, endoscopy and robotic surgery. She has as Masters in Education for Health Professionals from Johns Hopkins University, is currently an Adjunct Professor for JHU, and has an interest in “Residents as Educators,” and is the Surgical Clerkship Director for St Luke’s/Temple Medical School. A member of several committees at SAGES, currently Dr. McDonald is member of the Ethics Committee, the Safe Chole Committee, and the Global Health Committee and has participated in many educational-oriented surgical mission trips throughout the world. She is an Associate Member of the ACS Academy of Master Surgical Educators and is an American Board of Surgery Examiner. She has three children, two of which were Division I athletes, and now they work saving our world in water conservation industries. Dr. McDonald continues to enjoy hiking, horseback riding, and raising her chickens! Also an Associate of the Medical Mission Sisters, her mission is to continue her calling as a Surgeon, bringing wholeness and healing to our world.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Breast Disease/Cancer

  • axillary dissection
  • benign breast disease
  • breast cancer
  • Breast Disease/Cancer
  • breast ultrasound
  • lumpectomy
  • lymph node biopsy
  • mastectomy
  • radical mastectomy
  • sentinel node

Endocrine (Gland)

  • hyperparathyroidism
  • parathyroid cancer
  • parathyroid surgery
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure
  • abdominal pain
  • abdominoplasty
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallbladder cancer
  • gallstone disease
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc
  • liver/hepatic disease

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • Hernia Procedures
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

  • cellulitis
  • component separation
  • Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures
  • skin and soft tissue infections

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • colectomy
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonoscopy
  • esophagogastroduodenoscopy
  • gastrointestinal cancer
  • hemorrhoidectomy
  • laparoscopic colon surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • endoscopic surgery
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • Minimally Invasive Procedures
  • robotic surgery

Hospital Appointments

St Luke's University Health Network

Allentown, PA

Chief

09/2010—Present

Academic Appointments

Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

Clinical Professor

09/2010—Present

Johns Hopkins School of Education MEHP

Adjunct Professor

08/2018—Present