BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:76@womenshealthresearchcluster.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210121T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210121T110000 DTSTAMP:20250107T185807Z URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/jan-6-2021-trainee-ment or-session-dr-gillian-einstein/ SUMMARY:Trainee-Mentor Session: Dr. Gillian Einstein DESCRIPTION:Trainee-Mentor Session:\nGender Research Methodology - How To A dd Gender To Sex Differences Research and Very Mixed Methods (VMM)\nMento r: Dr. Gillian Einstein\, Professor\, Department of Psychology\, Univers ity of Toronto\n\n\n\nThe Women's Brain Health Initiative Trainee-Mentor S essions intend to provide students with the opportunity to meet and engage with sex and gender experts through informal conversations on diverse top ics including professional development and research. To ensure an intimate and valuable experience\, each Trainee-Mentor session will be limited to 30 registrants.\n\nPlease note that these sessions are for registrants of the Women's Brain Health Conference (2020-2021). If you have not register ed for the conference\, you may do so here before you register for the s ession(s) you would like to attend.\n\n\n\nGillian Einstein is The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women’s Brain Health and Aging\, Professor o f Psychology at the University of Toronto and Guest Professor of Gender an d Health at Linköping University in Linköping\, Sweden. She is an Adjunc t Scientist at Women’s College Research Institute and at the Rotman Rese arch Institute in Toronto. She is a board member of the International Gend er Medicine Society\, Chair of the Canadian Institutes of Health’s Insti tute of Gender and Health Advisory Board\, and Founder of the Canadian Org anization of Gender and Sex (COGS) Research. She is Lead of the Women\, Se x\, Gender\, and Dementia cross-cutting program of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging. She has served as a temporary advisor for the World Health Organization on Female Genital Circumcision/mutilation/c utting (FGC) and has numerous honours such as: Named one of 20 Canadian Br ain Research Stars\, Brain Canada\; The May Cohen Lecture in Women’s Hea lth\; Invited Member\, CIHR College of Reviewers\; Lawrence &\; Nancy G olden Memorial Lectureship in Mind-Body Medicine. She has also been recogn ized and profiled as a Leader in Women’s Health in Ontario by the Ontari o Women’s Health Network and as a feminist voice in Psychology\; Profile d in Psychology’s Feminist Voices. She has published on Alzheimer diseas e\, vision\, sex differences\, Female Genital Cutting\, and estrogens’ e ffects on aging\, pain\, sleep\, memory and mood.\n\nEinstein’s current research studies the effects of ovarian removal on women’s memory and br ains at midlife with a focus on how early loss of estrogens plays a role i n women’s higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease. She also studies cogniti on in trans-individuals and how different cultures shape the nervous syste m. Her broader interests encompass aging\, memory\, the long term effects of hormone treatment\, and the bridge between our scientific understanding of the nervous system and larger concerns having to do with self\, identi ty\, feminism\, and the nature of science. The overarching question of thi s research is: How do both sex and gender mediate women’s brain health?\ n\nShe is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research\, the Alzhe imer’s Society Canada\, Women’s Brain Health Initiative\, and the Onta rio Brain Institute.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/wp-conte nt/uploads/2021/01/Copy-of-trainee-mentor-series-1.png CATEGORIES:Conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR