Dr. Jacqueline Wong is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University. She earned both her Pharmacy and Medicine degrees from the University of Toronto, before moving to Vancouver to complete her pediatric residency at UBC. She then returned to Toronto for subspecialty training in Paediatric Infectious Diseases as well as an Advanced Clinical Fellowship in Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Hospital for Sick Children. She holds a thesis-based master’s degree in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University, completed alongside the Royal College’s Clinician Investigator Program. She joined the Department of Pediatrics as a full-time staff physician in 2020 and became Clinical Director of the hospital’s FMT stool bank in 2024.
Her research focuses on antimicrobial stewardship and the prevention of antibiotic-associated infections. She is passionate about smarter antibiotic use and leads innovative initiatives, including McMaster Children’s Hospital’s pharmacist-led inpatient beta-lactam allergy de-labeling program.