Biography

Head of the Canada Research Chair in Women's Cardiac Valvular Health at Université Laval.

Dr. Marie-Annick Clavel obtained a doctorate in veterinary medicine (DVM) at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France and a PhD in experimental medicine 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 now full professor, starting 2023, after being associate professor, starting 2019, and being assistant professor at the Department of Medicine of Université Laval 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 over than 300 articles and more than 500 abstracts in national and international congresses.

She received a new national investigator award from Heart and Stroke foundation of Canada, an early carrier investigator award from the Canadian Institute of Health Research and research grants from the foundation of Quebec heart institute, Laval University, Heart and stroke foundation of Canada and Canada Institute of Health Reseach. She received several prizes for scientific presentation, the 2017 award of excellence from the Heart and stroke foundation of Quebec and the Jacques-de-Champlain foundation, the 2019 young investigator award of the Canadian Society of Cardiology, the 2019 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award – Highest ranked abstract from Canada at Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association and the 2021 Prix du Jeune Chercheur « André-Dupont » from Club de Recherches Cliniques du Québec. She holds de Canada Research Chair on Women's Cardiac Valvular Health.