Department of Pediatrics

Faculty of Medicine

Beata Derfalvi, MD, PhD

Division Head of Pediatric Immunology, Professor

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Department of Pediatrics , Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Email: beata.derfalvi@iwk.nshealth.ca
Phone: 902-470-8491
Fax: 902-470-7812
Mailing Address: 
Division of Immunology
IWK Health Centre
PO Box 9700
5850-5980 University Ave.
Halifax, NS B3K 6R8
 

Dr. Beata Derfalvi is a pediatric immunologist at the IWK Health Centre, Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Division of Immunology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She graduated, completed pediatric residency, clinical immunology and rheumatology fellowships and Ph.D. in Immunology at Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary. She joined Dalhousie University in 2013.

Dr. Derfalvi served as the Immunology Section Lead at the Canadian Allergy and Immunology Society (2019-2021), and she is currently a member of the Medical Directors at Immunity Canada patient organization and Immunodeficiency Canada. As the co-chair of the Clinical Immunology Network Canada, Inborn Errors of Immunity Registry Steering Committee, she is leading the initiative to establish a national patient registry.

Dr. Derfalvi provides care for children with inborn errors of immunity, many of whom also present with autoimmune, autoinflammatory or rheumatological diseases caused by immune dysregulation.

Research Interests:

Dr. Derfalvi’s clinical and translational research program focusses on understanding immune dysregulation in rare forms of inborn errors of immunity, and in common autoimmune inflammatory diseases, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

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