Researcher
Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec - Université Laval
Université Laval, Canada
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Dr. Marie-Annick Clavel obtained a doctorate in veterinary medicine (DVM) at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France and a PhD in biomedical and clinical sciences at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada (2012). She pursued her formation by 3 years of post-doctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (2011-2014). She is associate professor at the Department of Medicine of Université Laval (Québec) and researcher at Quebec Heart and Lung University Institute since 2014. Her research program objectives are to elucidate the sex differences in pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and outcome in patients with valvular heart diseases and especially aortic stenosis. She had a strong interest in patients with heart failure, low flow and discordant severity markers of aortic stenosis. She has published more than 200 articles and more than 300 abstracts in national and international congresses.
Dr. Clavel holds the Canada research chair on women's Valvular Heart Health and an early carrier investigator award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She received a new national investigator award and a McDonald scholarship from Heart and Stroke foundation of Canada, and research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke foundation of Canada and the foundation of Laval University and Quebec heart institute. She received several prizes for scientific presentation and the 2017 award of excellence from the Heart and stroke foundation of Quebec and the Jacques-de-Champlain foundation, the 2019 Young investigator award from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the 2021 Prix André Dupont from the Club de recherche Clinique du Québec.