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Dr. Val Montessori

Director of Clinical Education
Co-chair of the CDET of the BC-CfE, Head-Division of Infectious Diseases SPH


Program(s): Clinical Education & Training
Initiative(s): Therapeutic Guidelines Committee

Dr. Montessori certified as a specialist in Internal Medicine at UBC and then continued her training as an Infectious Diseases Fellow with a subsequent Research Fellowship with the Canadian HIV Trials Network.

Her interests include infections in people who inject drugs, with a special focus on HIV and Hepatitis C. She is currently the Head of Infectious Diseases at St. Paul’s Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of British Columbia, the Associate Medical Director of the John Ruedy Clinic at St. Paul's Hospital and the Co-Chair of the BC Therapeutic Guidelines Committee for the Treatment of HIV/AIDS . She truly enjoys teaching and lecturing and was awarded the Fay R. Dirks Award for Teaching in 1998 , the UBC Department of Medicine Master Teacher Award for St. Paul’s Hospital in 2016, the Donald M. Whitelaw Award for Best Grand Rounds (SPH) in 2020 as well as the Faculty Award of Excellence for the Infectious Diseases Training Program in 2020. She was recently appointed the Director of Clinical Education at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.


Publications

Atypical pyoderma gangrenosum mimicking an infectious process.
2014 | Case Rep Infect Dis
Tenofovir-based rescue therapy for advanced liver disease in 6 patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis B virus and receiving lamivudine
2008 | Clinical Infectious Diseases
Liver ultrastructural morphology and mitochondrial DNA levels in HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfection: no evidence of mitochondrial damage with highly active antiretroviral therapy
2008 | AIDS
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