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Claudia Barth
Dr. Claudia Barth is a biologist by training who majored in neurobiology. During her PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Leipzig (Germany), she started working at the front-line of women’s health research by exploring the effects of hormonal transition states on mental illnesses and the brain...
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Claudia Calleja
I am a journalist with a passion for women’s issues all-round. Why? Because I was raised surrounded by women, I am a woman and I am now raising one. Over the years I have seen issues impacting women that range from physical, psychological and emotional. This is why I set...
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Claudia Paarmann-Chien
Dr. Claudia Paarmann-Chien (née Chien) is a Neuroscientist and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) PI at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, and Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Charité- University Hospital Berlin, Germany. Her research is focused on imaging correlates of long-term disability in neuroinflammatory...
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Cory Pedersen
Cory Pedersen earned her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2004. After teaching many years as a graduate student at UBC and adjunct instructor at Kwantlen, Cory was hired as a Faculty member in the Department of Psychology at KPU in 2005. Her interest in human sexuality began...
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Crystal Snow
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I have been a registered nurse working in rural and remote communities since 2005. I have worked in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut; Red Lake, Ontario; Prince Rupert and Bella Coola, BC; and now Bridgewater, Nova Scotia since 2012. I have worked in perinatal and emergency medicine my whole career and have...
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Dana Elliot
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Danica Chang
Danica Chang is a Medical Student at the University of Alberta, conducting clinical research under the supervision of Dr. Sofia Ahmed and Dr. Sandi Dumanski at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on contraception, sexual function, and reproductive health in young women with chronic kidney disease and aims to...
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Daniela Palombo
Dr. Daniela Palombo, Assistant Professor in the cognitive area. I investigate cognitive and neural factors associated with how we form and retain autobiographical memories and how this may differ across individuals. I also examine how autobiographical memory influences non-mnemonic functions, with a primary focus on future imagination and decision making....
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Danielle Osborne
I received my Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2014. For over 10 years I did basic and translational research on hormones and sex differences in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease models, with particular emphasis on the interaction between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. I now work with clinical data, working to understand...
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Danielle Perro
Hi! I’m Danielle. I recently completed my PhD at the University of Oxford, where I studied and phenotyped widespread pain in women living with chronic pelvic pain, and conditions such as endometriosis. As a Postdoctoral Researcher, I use epidemiology to study period pain in adolescence and understand both its causes...
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Danielle Watson
Dr. Danielle Watson is a naturopathic doctor & creator of The Mother Doctor. In her private practice, she treats mothers from preconception to pregnancy & through to the postpartum. Dr. Watson has made it her goal to change the dynamic in healthcare so that new mothers feel supported as they...
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