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Adriana Angarita-Fonseca
Adriana Angarita Fonseca is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in sex and gender in cardiovascular epidemiology at McGill University. Her career journey has been shaped by a multidisciplinary background encompassing physiotherapy, epidemiology, biostatistics, and population health. Adriana’s career goals are to drive innovative and impactful research in sex and gender in...
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Ahmad Mohammad
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Alana Brown
Alana Brown is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Gillian Einstein. Alana strives to use her training in statistics, functional and structural neuroimaging, and neuroendocrinology to understand the effects of ovarian hormones on cognition, sleep microstructure, and brain health. She studies these factors...
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Alana Castle
Alana Castle is a Master of Public Health Student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, graduating in December of 2024. She has served as the Research Project Assistant for two NIH-funded studies at the Women’s Biobehavioral Health Laboratory, the MsBrain2 Study (P.I.s...
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Aleksandra Erak
Graduate research student passionate about women’s health, specifically perinatal mental health.
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Alesia Prakapenka
Dr. Alesia Prakapenka is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Sciences (IL) at Midwestern University. Her research program investigates women’s health across the lifespan using translationally relevant rodent models, with a particular focus on how physiological changes contribute to age-related cognitive decline.
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Alex Lukey
Alex is a second-year MSN student at UBC Okanagan. She is also currently practicing as a Registered Nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver in cardiology and cardiac surgery. Alex’s research passions include applying technology to improve patient self-care and improving women’s health equity with population-based data. Alex’s thesis research is focusing...
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Alexa Govette
Alexa is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Jenna Gillen in the Exercise, Nutrition and Health Lab. Her research focuses on understanding how exercise and nutrition can be used to improve cardiometabolic health in women, and mitigate the risk of developing type 2...
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Alexandra Williams
I am a clinical cardiovascular physiologist, currently a postdoctoral fellow at UBC’s Faculty of Medicine and the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD). Although spanning a range of different conceptual approaches and methodologies, my research is increasingly focused on the investigation of sex-based differences in the autonomic control of the...
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Alexandra Ycaza Herrera
Dr. Ycaza Herrera is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Her research focuses on the ability of estradiol to modulate the cortisol response in women. To investigate how ovarian hormone levels modulate the adrenal cortisol and progesterone responses to stress, she...
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Alexia Bloch
Since joining the Anthropology Department at UBC in 2000, my research has focused on two key areas: the transformations in daily life, social relationships, and well being brought about by the end of socialist states; and how the substantial influx of undocumented migrants and refugees into Europe and other destination...
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Ali Tracy
Ali received her B.A. (Hon’s) in Psychology in 2016 from the University of British Columbia Okanagan and is now a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program at UBC. The overarching goal of her research is to better understand resiliency factors related to Major Depressive Disorder in order to inform...
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