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Sara Belga

Clinical Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Focus
Immune System
Degrees / Designations

MD

Contact Info
sara.belga@ubc.ca
604-875-4588
belga_sara

Biography

Dr. Sara Belga is a clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She received her medical degree from the University of Lisbon. She completed her training in infectious disease at the University of Alberta followed by a one-year fellowship in transplant infectious disease at the same institution. 

Dr. Belga joined the Transplant Infectious Disease program for the province of British Columbia in 2019. Her research interests include latent viral infections in transplantation and immune monitoring strategies in transplantation, that allow personalized medicine and individualized approaches to care. Her other interests include epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trials and drug safety. She is the recipient of the 2021 Team Grant for the project: "A novel CMV-specific cell-mediated immunity assay to predict CMV infection in renal transplant recipients."

Research Studies

Transplantation and Donation, Mental Health and Behaviour

Addressing issues and therapeutics in transplantation for COVID-19

Immune System

Inhaled Ciclesonide for Outpatients With COVID-19 (CONTAIN)

News and Awards

Team Grant Awards 2021 Recipients

Jun 22, 2021

Preventing symptom escalation among mild COVID-19 patients

Apr 24, 2021

Streamlining clinical research in B.C. to tackle COVID-19

Feb 4, 2021

Publications

  • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America -

    Donor Graft Cytomegalovirus Serostatus and the Risk of Arterial and Venous Thrombotic Events in Seronegative Recipients After Non-Thoracic Solid Organ Transplantation.

    Belga S, MacDonald C, Chiang D, Kabbani D, Shojai S, Abraldes JG, Cervera C
  • American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons -

    Hepatitis B surface antigen-positive donor to negative recipient lung transplantation.

    Belga S, Kabbani D, Doucette K
  • The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene -

    Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Alveolar Echinococcosis: An Emerging Infectious Disease in Alberta, Canada.

    Houston S, Belga S, Buttenschoen K, Cooper R, Girgis S, Gottstein B, Low G, Massolo A, MacDonald C, Müller N, Preiksaitis J, Sarlieve P, Vaughan S, Kowalewska-Grochowska K
  • Transplantation direct -

    Clinical Practice Guideline for Solid Organ Donation and Transplantation During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Weiss MJ, Hornby L, Foroutan F, Belga S, Bernier S, Bhat M, Buchan CA, Gagnon M, Hardman G, Ibrahim M, Luo C, Luong ML, Mainra R, Manara AR, Sapir-Pichhadze R, Shalhoub S, Shaver T, Singh JM, Srinathan S, Thomas I, Wilson LC, Wilson TM, Wright A, Mah A
  • Transplantation -

    Chronic Diarrhea Secondary to Norovirus Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Early Recognition is Key.

    Belga S
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