Dr Fatima Kakkar is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and clinician-researcher in congenital infectious at Sainte-Justine University Health Center in Montreal, Canada, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Montreal. Since 2011, she has co-directed the Women and Children’s Infectious Diseases Center, which provides care for mothers and infants affected by HIV, and is home to one of the oldest and largest perinatal HIV cohorts in Canada. She is past chair of the Canadian Pediatric HIV AIDS Research Group (CPARG), member of the Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance Program Steering Committee, and pediatric lead for the Quebec Perinatal and Pediatric guidelines committees.
Her research focuses on long-term health outcomes among children who were HIV exposed and uninfected, and on the role of CMV co-infection as a driver of adverse outcomes among children affected by HIV. Most recently, she has worked developing national and provincial guidelines on COVID19 infection in infants and children, and co-leads national epidemiological studies on COVID-19 in children.
