Dr. Duncan Webster

Medical Microbiologist

Dr. Duncan Webster is an infectious diseases physician at the Saint John Regional Hospital located in Saint John, New Brunswick, through the Department of Medicine with a cross-appointment in the Department of Laboratory Medicine.  He is also an honorary research associate with the University of New Brunswick and an associate professor with Dalhousie University.

Duncan graduated from Mount Allison University in 1993 with a bachelor of Sciences in chemistry, biology & physics as well as a bachelor of Arts (honours) in philosophy and religion. He completed his Masters degree in philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in 1998 and graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 2001. He also completed his Internal Medicine residency training, Infectious Diseases fellowship and Medical Microbiology fellowship training in 2007, at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Webster has clinical and research interests relating to chronic viral infections including hepatitis C as well as harm reduction, tuberculosis, zoonotic infections and glycosylation.