Armelle Perez Cortes Villalobos, MD, MSc

Dr. Villalobos research interests have focused mainly on infectious complications in transplant and cancer patients and other immunocompromised hosts as well as invasive fungal infections.

Brief biography

Dr. Armelle Villalobos is a transplant infectious diseases specialist. She received her medical degree from the Panamerican University in Mexico City in 2009. Dr. Villalobos completed her specialty training in Internal Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Mexico City from 2009 to 2013, afterwards she pursued further subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases also at the National Institutes of Health in Mexico City from 2013 to 2015.

She completed a Masters in Medical Science and Epidemiology in 2017 and joined the University of Toronto in August 2018 for specialized training in transplant and immunocompromised infectious diseases. On May 2022 she joined the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba as assistant professor of infectious diseases to work on immunocompromised and transplant patients. Her areas of special interest are invasive fungal infections, invasive aspergillosis and pre-transplant assessment.

Education

• Transplant and Immunocompromised Infectious Diseases (2018)
• Masters Clinical Epidemiology (2017)
• Infectious Diseases (2015)
• Internal Medicine (2013)
• Medical School (2002)

Awards

• New Investigator Award Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba (2024)
• Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) Clinical educator of the year (2023)
• Scientific grant “Vamos por Mexico”, Carlos Slim Health Foundation (2018)
• Award “Daniel Méndez Hernández” in Clinical research, National congress of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology, Mexico (2017)
• Scientific Award, Transplant infectious diseases, American Society of Transplantation (2015)
• Winner of: “Carlos Slim award for the impulse of research”  (2013)