Stacy McDonald, Ph.D.
Titles and Appointments
Deputy Chief of Physical Evidence at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science
Clinical Assistant Professor
- School
- Medical School
- Department
- Pathology
Dr. McDonald is an Instructor in the Department of Pathology. She attended Texas A&M University in College Station, TX as an undergraduate and received a B.S. degree in Zoology. She continued into the Ph.D. program at Texas A&M where she completed her doctoral dissertation under Dr. Ira Greenbaum in the Department of Biology. The focus of her research centered on chromosomal fragility in populations of deer mice and humans.
Following graduate school, Dr. McDonald accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in the Department of Pathology. During her tenure at the Mayo Clinic, she participated in the molecular characterization of well-known human fragile sites.
In 2002, Dr. McDonald was sponsored as a visiting scientist in the Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Her research activities focused on the development of new technologies for use in human identification.
Currently, Dr. McDonald is the Deputy Chief of Physical Evidence at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences. As the Deputy Chief, she assists with the oversight of the Firearms and Toolmarks, Trace Evidence, and Forensic Biology Laboratories.She continues to perform independent DNA analysis and serves as the autosomal STR DNA Technical Leader for the Institute.
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