Dr. Marie-Annick Clavel obtained her doctorate in veterinary medicine at the Ecole national vétérinaire (Veterinary School) de Lyon (France) and her MSc and PhD in Clinical and Biomedical Sciences from Université Laval (Québec, QC). Then she performed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). She is professor at the Department of Medicine of Université Laval (Québec city) and scientist at Quebec Heart and Lung University Institute since 2014. She holds the Canada research chair on Women's Cardiac Valvular Health.

The global objective of her research program is to characterize the sex-differences in pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of valvular heart diseases. To reach this objective, her laboratory performs clinical multidisciplinary patient-oriented research as well as basic scientific research in order to develop and validate sex-specific strategies for evaluation, management and treatment of valvular heart diseases patients, especially aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. She is the director or the VaRMI (ValvulaR Multi-Imaging) core laboratory.

She has published more than 300 scientific articles and more than 500 abstracts in national and international congresses. She receives several awards, such as the award of excellence from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Quebec and the Jacques-de-Champlain Foundation in 2017, and the 2021 prix du jeune chercheur André Dupont from the Club de Recherches Cliniques du Québec. She also received the 2019 Young Investigator Award and 2024 Mid-Career Lecturer Award in cardiovascular sciences from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

Dr Clavel is a fellow of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. She is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography and Associate editor at  the European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular imaging, the Journal of the Heart Valve Society and the International Journal of Cardiology.