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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.
Chinmayi Balusu
Chinmayi is a student pursuing neuroepidemiology and medical humanities at Columbia University in New York City. She is a researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Stanford Medicine with interests in cognitive neuroscience, brain injury, and stroke. Chinmayi serves as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Simply Neuroscience,...
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Chloe Guinaudie
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Chloe White
I am currently pursuing my PhD in Dr. Tom Velenosi’s lab in the UBC faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. My work focuses on the use of analytical techniques to guide the development of precision therapeutics for triple negative breast cancer in preclinical models. I am passionate about women’s health and science...
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Christie MacLeod
Christie MacLeod is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at McMaster University. Her clinical and research work takes place at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton in the Women’s Health Concerns Clinic and Mood Disorders Clinic. Her research aims to explore potential neural mechanisms for the sex-related difference in prevalence of depression....
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Christina Kolios
Clinical Pharmacist with a special interest in contraceptive choice, managing side effects, and patient education
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Christina Ragan
I earned my PhD in Neuroscience in 2011 from Penn State University, and then I went on to do Postdoctoral research in Dr. Joseph Lonstein’s lab at Michigan State University. After that, I became a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Colgate University. In 2017, I took a...
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Christine Ou
Dr. Christine Ou (RN, PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the UVic School of Nursing. As a pediatric registered nurse, she continues to support children and families with a program of research focused on the sleep and psychosocial well-being of families with infants and young children. She is also a...
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Christy Nguyen
Christy Nguyen is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine studying how RNA splicing in the ovary contributes to metabolic dysfunction in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
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Cindy Barha
Dr. Cindy Barha is an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. She is a translational neuroscientist with training in behavioural neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary biology, epidemiology, and neuroendocrinology. Her research examines how genetics and hormone-related life events interact to alter cognitive and brain trajectories across the lifespan and to...
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Cindy Kalenga
Cindy Kalenga is PhD student within the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary with a focus on women’s cardiovascular health. Her research project investigates the role of the route of administration of exogenous estrogen – in the form of contraceptives and hormone therapy – and cardiovascular risk...
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Cindy Nguyen
Cindy Nguyen is a PhD student at RSI where her thesis focuses on the intersection of sex, mental health, and traumatic brain injury. She holds an M.Sc in Rehabilitation Sciences and M.Eng in Biomedical Engineering. She is actively involved in academic leadership, serving as a program lead for research initiatives...
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Cindy-Lee Dennis
Cindy-Lee Dennis is a Professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She holds the Heather Reisman Chair in Perinatal Research at Mount Sinai Hospital and is a senior scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tannenbaum Research Institute at...
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