Scott MacDonald

Scott MacDonald is a recently retired physician and longtime downtown Vancouver resident running to represent Vancouver-West End. After more than three decades in medicine, including the last twenty years practising in downtown Vancouver, Scott is bringing his experience in healthcare, addictions medicine, and patient advocacy to public service. Scott’s medical career has taken him across Canada, from northern Manitoba and Nunavut to Toronto and Vancouver. His work has included primary care, emergency and hospital medicine, HIV/AIDS care, Hepatitis C treatment, addictions medicine, and methadone maintenance. From 2004 until his retirement in 2026, he worked as a primary care physician in Vancouver with a particular focus on addictions.