Matthew Oughton

Matthew was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. He completed his B.Sc.Hons. in Life Sciences at Queen’s University in 1994, and subsequently worked as a molecular biologist at Health Canada for two years. He received his medical doctorate from the University of Manitoba in 2000, and then successfully completed residencies in internal medicine at University of Toronto, and infectious diseases and medical microbiology at McGill University. He is now being pursued actively by the alumni donor associations of all four universities.

He is currently an assistant professor of medicine at McGill, and an attending physician with the Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Microbiology at the Jewish General Hospital in Montréal, Québec. He is married to Dr. Leyla Korany, has two children, and washes his hands frequently.