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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.
Caitlin MacRae
Caitlin is a new PhD student in the Centre for Neuroendocrinology at The University of Otago, New Zealand. She completed her Master of Biomedical Science at The University of Auckland, investigating sex differences in novel weight loss therapeutics, before making the move to study the mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of...
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Caitriona Federico
Caitriona is a graduate student studying a variety of areas of women’s health. Her introduction to the field was field work in rural Kenya where she studied the impacts of menstrual health management on education for young girls there. She has also studied patterns on obstetric diagnoses in insured and...
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Candace Oghide
Candace Oghide is a 2nd year Masters student in Nursing from McMaster University. She has a clinical background in community women’s health, HIV inpatient, and sexual assault/domestic violence. Candace is passionate about health equity and working with marginalized women. Candace’s research interest is in sexual and reproductive health, with a...
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Cara Davidson
Cara Davidson is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Western University. Her research examines women’s health with an emphasis on gender-based violence, health equity, and trauma- and violence-informed care. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Cara’s research spans gender studies, health sciences, psychology, and...
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Carina Heller
Carina was trained in psychology and holds a PhD from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, in which she focused on white and gray matter brain alterations in patients with the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a syndrome associated with a 30% risk to develop schizophrenia in adult life. In this and...
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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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Carlin Miller
As a Professor at the University of Windsor, I am proud to mentor, teach, research, and serve my department and community. I firmly believe I have the most remarkable students who will go on to make substantial differences in the lives of those around them. My longest standing interest is...
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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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