Division of Infectious Diseases and Chronic Viral Illness Service
Glen site, McGill University Health Centre
1001 Decarie Boulevard D02.4110
Montreal, Qc, Canada H4A 3J1
Dr. Marina Klein is Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada in the Division of Infectious Diseases/Chronic Viral Illnesses. She graduated from McGill Medical School (1991) and received her training in Internal Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. She completed a research fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota in 1998 and then returned to McGill University where she received a Master's degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (2003). Her clinical interests focus on treatment of patients with HIV and chronic viral hepatitis. She is a prominent researcher in clinical and epidemiologic aspects of HIV and Hepatitis C co-infection and leads a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded prospective cohort study of over 1200 HIV-HCV co-infected patients to study the interaction of these chronic viral infections. She has also been a principal investigator in several clinical trials of HIV-HCV co-infection. Dr. Klein is also involved in a number of observational epidemiologic research collaborations (e.g. NA-ACCORD and CANOC) focused on understanding longterm clinical and treatment outcomes in HIV and in HIV-HCV co-infection where she has assumed a leadership role in scientific steering committees. She is currently serving as IAS Governing Council representative for the North American Region. In 2014 she assumed the role of National Co-Director of the CIHR-Canadian HIV Trials Network
