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:150@womenshealthresearchcluster.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230614T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230614T123000 DTSTAMP:20250106T201416Z URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/womens-health-research- trainee-conference/ SUMMARY:Women's+ Health Research Trainee Conference DESCRIPTION:\n\nWe are collaborating with the Partnership for Women's He alth Research Canada (PWHR) to showcase new research on women's+ health fr om diverse fields. People across the gender spectrum benefit from researc h dedicated to women’s+ health. PWHR and the WHRC uses the term women to refer to all people who identify as women. We use trans and non-binary as umbrella terms to refer to people with a wide range of gender identities that are different from the gender they were assigned at birth.\n\nThe Wom en's+ Health Trainee Research Conference is an opportunity for trainees t o showcase their research on women’s+ health through virtual oral and p oster presentations. It seeks to engage trainees across a wide variety of fields\, including biomedical\, clinical\, health systems services\, popul ation and public health\, social sciences\, and more. We strongly encourag e participation from individuals who are addressing equity issues in women ’s+ health\, as well as projects that use quantitative\, qualitative or mix methods!\n\nThe overall objective of this conference is to build knowl edge translation capacity in trainees\, facilitate new research connection s\, and disseminate multidisciplinary women's health research.\n\nThis con ference will also include an expert panel discussion where panelists shar e what they wish they had known about working in the field of women's+ hea lth\, and what it is like to be a women’s+ health research leader and sc ientist. Attending this session will help trainees prepare themselves for a career in the women’s+ health field.\nAgenda\n9:00-9:05—Welcoming Re marks\n\n9:05-9:50—Expert Panel Discussion (7 minute informal presentati ons followed by a 20 minute moderated discussion)\n\n9:50-10:35—Oral Pre sentation: Session 1\n\n Talk 1: 9:50-10:05: Alexandra Broulliard\n Talk 2: 10:05-10:20: Kaitlin Zaki-Metias\n Talk 3: 10:20-10:35: Md Saiful\, A lam\n\n10:35-10:45—Break / Intro to Gather.town\n\n10:45-11:30—Poster Session via Gather.town\n\n11:30-12:15—Oral Presentation: Session 2\n\n Talk 1: 11:30-11:45: Bryn Stagg\n Talk 2: 11:45-12:00: Catriona Hippman \n Talk 3: 12:00-12:15: Meejin Park\n\n12:15-12:25—Audience Q&\;A\n\ n12:25-12:30—Award Ceremony &\; Closing Remarks\nCall for Abstracts\n We encourage trainees that are conducting research from any discipline tha t is relevant to women’s+ health to submit an abstract (up to 250 words ) by April 16th at 11:59pm PST. Unofficial proof of registration\, such as a screenshot of your transcript\, will be used to confirm enrollment at a ny university worldwide. The top 6 abstracts will be invited to give an o ral presentation\, as well as a poster presentation. All other eligible ab stracts will be invited to give a poster presentation. Sucessful applicant s will also get a chance to win one of 5 awards.\n\nSubmit an abstract\nAw ards\nWe will be giving out $275 of awards to trainees with top notch post ers and oral presentations. Sponsored by the CIHR IGH Sex and Gender Scien ce Trainee Network\, these awards will recognize outstanding work that con tributes to our understanding of sex and/or gender in health outcomes. Ora l presentations will be judged by 5 multidisciplinary experts.\n\n\n\nOral Presentation 1st place\n$100\n\n\nOral Presentation 2nd place\n$75\n\n\nO ral Presentation 3rd place\n$50\n\n\nPeople's Choice Poster Award\n$25\n\n \nPeople's Choice Poster Award\n$25\n\n\n\n  Panelists\n\n\n\n\nDr. Liisa Galea\nLead\, Women's Health Research Cluster\nLiisa Galea leads the WHR C and is the inaugural womenmind Treliving Family Chair in Women’s Me ntal Health\, Senior Scientist at CAMH\, the Principal Editor of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology\, the President of Organization for the Study of Se x Differences and co-Vice-President of Canadian Organisation for Sex and G ender Research. She serves on advisory boards\, editorial boards\, and pee r review panels internationally and nationally. Dr. Galea is a tireless ad vocate for women’s+ health research and for sex and gender-based analyse s to improve mental health for all. My research investigates how sex horm ones influence brain health and disease in both females and males. The mai n goal of my research is to improve brain health for women and men by exam ining the influence of sex and sex hormones on normal and diseased brain s tates such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease.\n\n\n\nDr. Lori Brotto \nExecutive Director\, Women’s Health Research Initiative\, Executive C ommittee PWHR\nDr. Lori Brotto is the Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute located in Vancouver\, British Columbia\, a Prof essor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia\, a registered psychologist and co-lead of the WHRC. Dr. Brotto also holds a Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health and is the Director of UBC Sexual Health Research. Her research primarily focu ses on developing and testing psychological and mindfulness-based interven tions for women with sexual desire and arousal difficulties and women with chronic genital pain.\n\n\n\nDr. Rulan Parekh\nVice President of Academic s\, Women's College Hospital\, Executive Committee PWHR\nDr. Rulan Parekh is the Vice President\, Academics at Women’s College Hospital. In her r ole\, Dr. Parekh leads the advancement of the hospital’s goal to build s ustainable\, world-class research\, innovation and education. Dr. Parekh i s a clinician-scientist\, and an international leader in clinical epidemio logy and translational research in kidney disease. She is also a staff nep hrologist at Women’s College Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children\, a s well as a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine in the Departments of Med icine\, Paediatrics\, Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management Evalua tion at the University of Toronto.\n\n\n\nJudges\nJudges will be asked to review abstracts related to their area of expertise and judge the oral pre sentations at the conference. Attending the full conference is welcome\, b ut not required.\n\n\n\n\nDr. Elizabeth Onyango\n\nElizabeth Onyango is an Assistant Professor of Healthy and Sustainable Communities in the School of Public Health\, University of Alberta. She holds a PhD in Health Geog raphy of the University of Waterloo\, Ontario\, Canada and a Master's of Public Health\, Epidemiology and Population Health of MasenoUniversity i n Kenya. Elizabeth’s current research interest focuses on food security \, nutrition and social inequalities in health and wellbeing of immigrants in Canadian cities and cities in the global South. Her work also extends into intersections of gender\, gender-based violence and household food se curity and the associated health outcomes in women and children. Dr. Onya ngo is a member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCH RI).\n\n\n\nDr. Hilary Brown\n\nHilary Brown\, PhD\, is an Assistant Profe ssor at the University of Toronto\, in the Department of Health &\; Soc iety and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is cross-appointed to the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and is an Ad junct Scientist at Women’s College Hospital and ICES. Dr. Brown holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Disability &\; Reproductive Health. Her research program examines maternal and child health across the life cours e\, with a focus on populations with disabilities and chronic illness\, he alth equity\, and the social determinants of health.\n\n\n\nDr. Holly Huns berger\n\nDr. Hunsberger received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry fr om West Virginia University. She then went on to pursue her PhD under the mentorship of Dr. Miranda Reed at West Virginia University. There she stud ied glutamate’s role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using novel microelec trode array technology. After receiving her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience \, she moved to New York City for her postdoctoral position under the ment orship of Dr. Christine Denny at Columbia University. There her work focus ed on how the metabolome differs between age-related cognitive decline and AD and how anxiety impacts AD progression. Her current research interest s focus on dissecting the effects of anxiety and anatomical sex on the neu ral circuits that are altered in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. In 2019\ , she was awarded a K99/R00 (K99AG059953) entitled\, “The sex-specific i mpact of anxiety on Alzheimer’s disease progression\,” from the Nation al Institute of Aging (NIA). She aims to understand why females are more s usceptible to AD and to create personalized therapeutics for males and fem ales. She is working to bridge the gap between mouse and human studies of AD by partnering with clinical researchers to ask novel questions using bi g datasets.\n\n\n\nDr. Cindy Barha\n\nDr. Barha is an Assistant Professor  in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. Dr. Barha is a translational neuroscientist with training in behavioural neuroscience\ , cognitive neuroscience\, evolutionary biology\, epidemiology\, and neuro endocrinology. Her research examines how genetics and hormone-related life events interact to alter cognitive and brain trajectories across the life span and to determine how these factors affect pharmacological and nonphar macological treatment efficacy in older age. Currently\, Dr. Barha is exam ining sex differences in the effect of exercise on brain health in older a dults. She is currently funded by the Alzheimer’s Association (USA) and Brain Canada.\n\n\n\nDr. Martha Paynter\n\nDr. Paynter is an Assistant Pro fessor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick\, wher e her clinical teaching and research focus on the intersection of reproduc tive health and the criminal justice system.  She is the Affiliate Scien tist for the Nova Scotia Women’s Choice Clinic\, an Affiliate Scientist with IWK Health\, and a member of the Contraceptive &\; Abortion Resear ch Team (CART-GRAC) and WHRI. She is also the founder and past chair of  Wellness Within: An Organization for Health and Justice\, the only organ ization in Canada dedicated to advancing reproductive justice for people e xperiencing criminalization and the author of Abortion to Abolition: Rep roductive Health and Justice in Canada\, which was published in Spring 202 2 by Fernwood Publishing.\n\n\n\nQuestions about this conference can be di rected to our Event &\; Communications Assistant (Avani Dhunna) at wome nshealth.events@ubc.ca ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/wp-conte nt/uploads/2024/11/trainee_research_conference_-_call_for_abstracts.jpg CATEGORIES:Trainee Conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR