Deepali Kumar, Canada

Dr. Deepali Kumar is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a transplant infectious diseases physician in the Multi-Organ Transplant Program at University Health Network.
She obtained her medical degree from the University of Ottawa and did infectious disease training at the University of California-San Diego and McMaster University. She further did a Masters degree with a focus in transplantation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Kumar has a translational research program that consists of both clinical and laboratory-based research. Her research focuses on immunologic responses to vaccines and viral infections in transplant recipients. She has supervised numerous graduate students and medical residents/fellows. She has authored over 175 manuscripts, editorials, and book chapters in the field of transplantation. She is Editor-in-chief of The AST Handbook of Transplant Infections and Associate Editor of the 3rd and 4th Transplant ID Guidelines. She is currently Associate Editor for Transplantation and Clinical Transplantation.