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Emily Anne Opala2025-11-12 12:00:372025-10-24 11:25:04Recognizing Excellence: Dr. Bernard Le Foll Elected to the Canadian Academy of Health SciencesLet 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.
Elaha Niazi
Elaha Niazi is an undergraduate student studying Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. Her passion for improving women’s health led her to join the Ahmed-Dumanski lab, where she is currently investigating the effect of in-vitro fertilization on cardiovascular outcomes, as well as examining period product and contraceptive access across...
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Elaine Xu
My name is Elaine Xu, and I am a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I am passionate about conducting research that bridges the gap in understanding women’s brain health. My current work focuses on adolescence as a critical developmental period that...
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Elan Fortin-Eglitis
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Elena Choleris
We are particularly interested in various regulatory and modulatory aspects of social behavior. Among many, we are investigating the neurobiological bases of (1) social learning whereby an individual acquires information from another individual, (2) social recognition, individual identification and memory (3) sociability, an individual’s tendency to prefer to spend time...
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Eli Puterman
Dr. Eli Puterman is an associate professor and the Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Health (2015-2025), and was a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar (2016-2021). He is the Director of the Fitness, Aging, and Stress Lab where he and his team develop, evaluate, and disseminate physical...
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Elif Tunc-Ozcan
I received a B.A. in Psychology (2004) and an M.A. in Developmental Psychology (2006) from Bogazici University in Turkey. I got my Ph.D. (2017) from Northwestern University, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN). Following my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University Neurology Department until I was appointed...
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Elisa García Lara
Dr. Elisa García Lara is a neuroscientist and lecturer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and a master’s in Translational Medicine from the University of Barcelona, where she also completed her Ph.D. in Biomedicine (Neuroscience) under the supervision of Dr. Coral Sanfeliu (IIBB-CSIC). In 2020, she received the...
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Elise Wiley
Elise completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Miami in Exercise Physiology. She is currently in the final stages of completing her MSc in Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University under the supervision of Dr. Ada Tang. Elise’s research interests include examining sex-and gender-based differences in physiological and psychosocial markers...
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Elizabeth Keys
Dr. Elizabeth Keys, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UBC Okanagan. She is a registered nurse with a clinical background in community and public health nursing focused on promoting maternal, child, and family wellbeing in the community. Dr. Keys obtained her PhD and BN from...
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Elizabeth Nethery
Dr. Elizabeth Nethery is a post-doctoral research fellow and perinatal epidemiologist with a broad interest in the impacts of research evidence on clinical practice. She received her PhD from School of Population and Public Health at UBC and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and...
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Elizabeth Ogunade
Elizabeth is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Scarborough, pursuing a double major in Molecular Biology, Immunology & Disease and Psychology. Her academic interests lie in examining health disparities across gender and racial lines, particularly in the context of chronic illness and mental health.
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Elizabeth Rideout
I completed my BSc (Hons) at the University of Toronto at Mississauga in Forensic Science and Biology. I first became interested in research working with fruit flies in the laboratory of Prof. Marla Sokolowski. I then moved on to the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Goodwin at the University of Glasgow...
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