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Bonnie Lee
Bonnie Lee is the Lead, Research and Advocacy at the Women’s Health Research Cluster. She is a Neuroscience PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia studying with Dr. Liisa Galea in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology. Her research is focused on understanding how sex and sex-linked factors, including previous...
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Brady Greening
Brady’s entire athletic therapy career has focused on youth athletes in hockey, dance, soccer, figure skating and basketball. Her experience, professionalism, and knowledge as the Head Athletic Therapist of Edge School is wide ranging. Between working on the bench with hockey and basketball, spending hours to understand the world of...
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Brandi Williams
I am a PhD candidate in environmental and analytical chemistry with public health applications. My dissertation research focuses on wastewater-based and environmental epidemiology where I quantify molecular and chemical markers to represent a community health status.
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Brenna Whalley
I studied at the University of British Columbia, where I graduated with a BSc in Global Resource Systems and a Minor in Science. I specialized in public health and genetics, combining my passion for health sciences and human biology with my desire to dismantle current systems and mitigate the ever-growing...
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Brian Christie
Dr. Christie obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Otago, where he worked in the world-renowned Graham Goddard laboratory complex with Dr. Cliff Abraham and studied long-term depression of Synaptic efficacy. Dr. Christie then completed post-doctoral training at the University of Otago as a Health Research Fellow before moving to...
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Brianna Bristow
She is currently a lab technician in the Cembrowski lab at UBC, where she performs circuit-mapping and molecular techniques on rodent and human brain tissue to characterize new cell subtypes and explore cell-type heterogeneity in regions associated with memory. Before graduating with a BSc in biochemistry at UBC in 2020,...
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Brianna Kennelly
I am a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Deborah Sloboda. My research is in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Specifically, my research investigates how exposure to maternal obesity impacts future immune responses to infection.
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Brittany Schwende
Brittany Schwende is a PhD candidate at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Charlotte Usselman in the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory. Her doctoral research focuses on the autonomic regulation of blood pressure in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Specifically, she is interested in how biological features...
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Bryna Goeckner
I am a graduate student researching sport-related concussion in female athletes through neuroimaging and clinical outcomes with consideration of hormonal contraception and hormone levels. @BrynaGoeckner
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Burcu Zeydan
Dr. Burcu Zeydan is an assistant professor of radiology and neurology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Zeydan received her M.D. degree and completed her residency training in the Department of Neurology at Istanbul University. Her research focuses on imaging and epidemiology of neurodegenerative and demyelinating diseases and, particularly...
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C. Neill Epperson
C. Neill Epperson, MD, is the Robert Freedman Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus (CU-AMC) where she is also senior faculty at the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research. Before being recruited to CU Anschutz,...
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Caitlin Buchholz
Caitlin Buchholz, MS, is a Clinical Research Assistant at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She’s interested in how menopause and other women’s health domains relate to Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive aging.
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