Duncan Webster

Duncan graduated from Mount Allison in 1993 with a BSc in chemistry, biology & physics as well as a BA (honours) in philosophy and religion. He completed his Masters degree in philosophy at UNB in 1998 and graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 2001. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Alberta before returning to Dalhousie for Medical Microbiology fellowship training which he completed in 2007. He subsequently returned to his home in Saint John, New Brunswick where he continues to work as an infectious diseases consultant at the Saint John Regional Hospital through the Department of Medicine with a cross-appointment in the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Duncan has been named an honorary research associate with the University of New Brunswick. He is an associate professor with Dalhousie University and an active teacher with the Dalhousie Medical School providing introductory lectures and clinical skills teaching at DMNB and has served as a preceptor for numerous medical students, clinical clerks and residents in the clinical setting as well as in research activities. As an infectious diseases physician he has clinical and research interests relating to chronic viral infections including hepatitis C as well as harm reduction, tuberculosis, zoonotic infections and glycosylation.