Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery (Transplant)
Yale University
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Maricar Malinis, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Surgery (Transplant) and the Medical Director of the Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases Program at Yale School of Medicine.
She obtained her medical degree at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Seton Hall Graduate Medical Education. Afterward, she did fellowship training in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Michigan, Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville, and Transplant Infectious Diseases at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
She is an active member of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the Transplantation Society, and the IDSA. She was the inaugural chair of the AST IDCOP Older Adult Working Group (2019-2021). In addition, she is currently serving her term as the councilor of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Section of The Transplantation Society. She completed her 4-year term as an IDSA Clinical Affairs Committee member in 2021. She is an inaugural IDSA Digital Advisory Group member, served as vice-chair between 2020-2021, and is currently the chair (2021 to 2023).
Her research focuses on clinical outcomes of transplantation in people living with HIV and older adults. She is the primary investigator of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act clinical trial at Yale and several multi-center clinical trials of novel anti-viral agents for immunocompromised hosts. She has led projects on patient safety and quality improvement of care among transplant candidates and recipients, such as optimizing vaccination uptake in this population.
