Ivan Litvinov

Dr. Litvinov is the Associate Professor of Dermatology of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of McGill University. He serves as a dermatologist at St. Mary's Hospital Centre in Montreal. He earned his Ph.D. degree in cellular and molecular medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and his medical degree at McGill, completing dermatology residency training at McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).

During 2019-2021, Dr Litvinov served as regional director (Quebec) of the Canadian Dermatology Association. Currently, he serves as a board member of the International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas. He is actively involved in the literature, serving as an associate editor of Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery (JCMS) and Frontiers in Medicine and as a deputy editor of JCMS Case Reports.

He is active in cutaneous research, particularly studying cutaneous lymphomas, keratinocyte carcinomas, and melanoma, and his research is supported by various grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Dr Litvinov directs a translational research laboratory within the cancer research program of the MUHC-Research Institute and co-leads a hematology-dermatology multidisciplinary clinic at the Glen Site of the MUHC. He also directs a skin cancer diagnosis and treatment clinic for solid organ transplant recipients, and he oversees Projet Soleil UV/SunFit Project. In 2020, Dr Litvinov received the Early Career Award in Cancer from CIHR and the 2019 President Cup Award for his contributions to dermatology and research.