Fiona Smaill, McMaster University

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Pathology & Molecular Medicine Professor Hamilton, Ontario smaill@mcmaster.ca Office: (905) 521-2100 ext. 76332

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Dr. Smaill is actively involved in clinical trials in HIV management, the development of vaccines for tuberculosis, and management of infections in pregnancy. Her interest in HIV infection includes multicentre trials to evaluate efficacy and side-effects of different antiretroviral regimens and w...

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Bio/Research

Dr. Smaill is actively involved in clinical trials in HIV management, the development of vaccines for tuberculosis, and management of infections in pregnancy. Her interest in HIV infection includes multicentre trials to evaluate efficacy and side-effects of different antiretroviral regimens and work on gender differences in the management of HIV infection. Dr. Smaill is also working with Dr. Xing on an adenovirus-based vaccine for tuberculosis and they are currently running a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate their novel TB vaccine in healthy volunteers.

Dr. Smaill has an ongoing commitment to complete and update several Cochrane Systematic Reviews related to the management of infections in pregnancy, with a focus on treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria and antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean sections. She is an associate editor for ACP Evidence-Based Medicine. She is the co-editor of the recently published second edition of the textbook "Evidence-Based Infectious Diseases".

Dr. Smaill is a medical microbiologist for the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program,and consultant in infectious diseases and infection control and co-director of the HIV clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences.

Dr. Smaill is a professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine. She currently teaches in McMaster’s MD Undergraduate Program, the MD Postgraduate Program and in the Medical Sciences Graduate Program.



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