Dr. Valerie Marcil

Valerie Marcil, PhD, R.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition, Université de Montréal and Researcher at the Research Center of CHU Sainte-Justine. She is an expert in clinical nutrition, pediatric cancer, and gastroenterology. Dr. Marcil's research program integrates fundamental, clinical, and epidemiological aspects to understand the development of cardiometabolic disorders in relation to nutrition in children with cancer and survivors. Her main research interests are nutrition during and after pediatric cancer; nutrition and gut microbiota; pediatric cancer and cardiometabolic health. She is a principal investigator on numerous research projects in oncology and nutrition at CHU Sainte-Justine. Dr. Marcil has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals as the first or lead author.