Marie Claude_Blais

Marie Claude Blais DVM, Dipl. ACVIM

Dr. Marie-Claude Blais has graduated from the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire of the Université de Montréal in 2002. She completed her Small Animal Internal Medicine Residency at Tufts University (2008) and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine the same year. She has also completed a Fellowship in Transfusion Medicine under the mentoring of Dr Urs Giger at the University of Pennsylvania (2005). Since 2008, Dr Blais is back to the Université de Montréal where she is currently an associate professor in Small Animal Internal Medicine as well as the Medical Chef of the Small Animal Hospital. She is also in charge of the Small Animal Blood Bank, reflecting her main focus of interest in research, i.e. all aspects of transfusion medicine. Since 2017, she has concluded a collaboration agreement with the Canadian Animal Blood Bank, a not-for profit organization based in Winnipeg. This collaboration helps provide high quality canine blood products to veterinarians throughout Canada and creates a unique opportunity for clinical research. Most recently, she has participated as a chair member in the Amercican College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC) Consensus on the Rational Use of Antithrombotics in Veterinary Critical Care (CURATIVE) guidelines and has co-author the chapter entitled "Erythrocyte Antigens and Blood Groups" for the 7th edition of Schalm's Veterinary Hematology.


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