Leïla Belkhir

Leïla Belkhir (Belgium), MD, PhD is an infectious diseases specialist and HIV attending physician at the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (Brussels, Belgium). She is currently Head of Clinic in the Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Professor of Infectious Diseases at UCLouvain (co-teacher). She also serves as Academic Coordinator of the Belgian Interuniversity Certificate in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology and as President of the Medical Council (since 2022).

She obtained her MD from UCLouvain in 2003, completed her training in internal medicine and infectious diseases between 2003 and 2009, joined the AIDS Reference Center of Saint-Luc in 2010, and completed a PhD in 2017 focusing on pharmacogenomic determinants of antiretroviral therapy.

She is actively involved in numerous clinical studies in the field of infectious diseases and contributes to national scientific and advisory bodies, including the Belgian Antibiotic Policy Coordination Committee (BAPCOC), the BELTA-TBnet MDR-Tuberculosis group, the faculty club of Breach. She has been a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (Class Technology and Society) since 2022.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was actively involved in patient care, hospital crisis management, and public health communication.