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Emily Anne Opala2025-10-08 12:00:142025-10-07 09:04:09Advancing Women’s Mental Health: Dr. Simone Vigod Appointed Family Chair of PsychiatryLet 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.
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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Celine Bencker
I am a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vienna. My work focuses on understanding the complex psychobiological relationship between premenstrual symptoms and stress across the menstrual cycle. Furthermore, I am generally interested in broader aspects of female mental health and affective changes throughout the female reproductive...
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Celine Camon
Celine is a final year PhD Candidate in the Centre for Neuroendocrinology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She completed her BSc (Hons) in physiology while in Ireland and is currently undertaking a laboratory exchange at UCLA in Los Angeles. Celine research interests are around understanding how estrogen treatment,...
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Chantal Rytz
Chantal Rytz is a PhD Candidate at the University of Calgary.
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Charity Mudhikwa
Charity is a graduate student in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in the Master of Science in Public Health program. Her research is focused on understanding how racism is measured in epidemiological research in Canada, and also exploring associations with women’s sexual health outcomes. She also...
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Charlie Waugh
My research interests lie in the broad area of musculoskeletal health and rehabilitation and focus on 1) the adaptability of the system to mechanical and biological stresses, and 2) optimizing the system for movement outcomes and injury prevention. Research Areas: Biomedical, Clinical, Medical Education Keywords: musculoskeletal adaptation, sex hormones, injury
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Charlis Raineki
My laboratory’s work examines how our unique experiences across development have profound impacts on our brains and behavior. Our primary research interest is to uncover biological mechanisms underlying neurobehavioral deficits induced by pre- and/or early postnatal adverse experiences, with a special focus on understanding the increased vulnerability to develop psychopathologies...
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