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Emily Anne Opala2025-09-10 12:00:442025-09-10 10:32:41Dr. Jennifer Williams Receives OBI-Banting Discovery Award for Brain Health ResearchLet us Feature Your Work
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Our Expert Database connects you with multidisciplinary women’s health researchers, professors, and trainees. Use this platform to find a collaborator for your research project, identify an expert to comment on current events, discover a supervisor for your graduate work and more. Alternatively, browse the profiles below to get to know our members.
Carla Elena Mezo Gonzalez
Carla Elena Mezo Gonzalez holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Nutrition from the University of Nantes in France, and she is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neurobiology of Depression and Aging Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Driven by her passion for understanding how...
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Carla Maduta
Carla Maduta is an MD/PhD Candidate under the supervision of Dr. John McCormick at the University of Western Ontario, pursuing her degree in Microbiology and Immunology. Her research investigates how immune cells respond to the staphylococcal toxin that causes menstrual toxic shock syndrome (mTSS). She previously completed her Honours Bachelor’s...
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Carling Smith
Carling Smith’s research interests revolve around understanding sex differences in the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Pursuing her graduate studies in the Rideout Lab at the University of British Columbia, Carling aims to elucidate how insulin producing cells of the endocrine pancreas in male and female mice respond differently to...
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Carly La Berge
Carly La Berge (she/her) is a Senior Policy Analyst at the First Nations Health Authority. She has a Master of Public Health (MPH) in social policy from the University of Victoria (UVic) and a Bachelor of Science from UBC Okanagan. Carly worked as a medical office assistant for over five...
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Caroline Kokorudz
Caroline is currently a medical student in the joint MSc/MD program at the University of Calgary, conducting research under the supervision of Dr. Sandra Dumanski. She is exploring the impact of controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) on perceptions of body image with the aim of optimizing patient-oriented COS treatment. During her...
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Caroline Walker
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Carrie Elrick
Carrie is a passionate believer in creating work environments that have impact and prosperity. She aids in developing equity at the social at the policy level to ensure people can bring their best to what they do each day. Her engaging approach works to involve individuals, policymakers, and leaders in...
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Cassandra Szoeke
GAICD, AFAIDH, PhD, FRACP, AMA(M), MBBS, BSc(Hons) Professor Cassandra Szoeke is a Full Academic Professor, Clinician, Speaker and Author. As Principal Investigator of the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project, the longest study of women’s health in Australia, she authored the book Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing, which was highly commended in...
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Catie Futhey
Catie is a medical student at the University of British Columbia. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience from the University of McGill.
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Catriona Hippman
Dr. Hippman is a postdoctoral research fellow with the BC Women’s Reproductive Mental Health Program, the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and the University of Calgary Faculty of Nursing. Her fellowship is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Killam Trusts, the...
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Cecile Ladouceur
Dr. Ladouceur is a tenured Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychology and a member of the training faculty in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP). She is a clinical child psychologist and...
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Celena Cherian
Celena’s research is focused on understanding the sex differences in growth and body size at a cellular level. As a PhD student in the Rideout Lab at UBC, she works with the mighty fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). She is investigating mitochondrial function and protein synthesis in adipose tissue to find...
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