Dr. 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. Additionally, she rotated through the Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases service at Stanford Hospital and Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases service at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  She joined the Transplant Infectious Disease program for the province of British Columbia in 2019. Her clinical responsibilities include the care of pre- and post-transplant patients at Vancouver General Hospital. 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.