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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.
Joelle LeMoult
Dr. Joelle LeMoult is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She is the Director of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Laboratory, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Women’s Health Research Institute,...
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Jolie (Wanlin) Wu
Jolie is a Master’s student in the Rosin Laboratory at UBC, where she explores changes in gene expression in the developing fetal hypothalamus in response to maternal sleep disruptions during pregnancy. Her research aims to investigate how prenatal maternal sleep disruption alters the development of different regions and cell types...
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Jonathan Lieberman
Jonathan Lieberman is currently a PhD student in the Neuroscience program at McMaster University. His research focuses on studying the neural mechanisms of PTSD including the effect of sex as a biological variable and exploring the use of real-time fMRI neurofeedback as a therapeutic intervention.
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Jordyn M. Cox
Jordyn is a first-year Master’s student in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine awarded a CIHR CGS-M award at the University of Alberta. Working under the supervision of Dr.Taniya Nagpal, Jordyn is passionate about understanding health stigma from lived experiences in pregnancy especially among marginalized populations such as women of colour....
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Joselyn Dionisio
Joselyn is a biologist interested in DOHaD and placental role during perinatal infections. She is currently completing her Master’s degree at Nagoya City University, in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Science. @JoselynDionisio
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Josephine Mary Violet Francis Xavier
Josephine as a researcher, is interested in broad areas like virtual reality in nursing education and practice, women’s mental health, perinatal mental health, father’s involvement in immigrant childbearing families, healthy behaviours of school-age children, neonatal pain relief, neonatal hypoglycemia, gender-inclusive language, and promotion of breastfeeding support. She actively takes part...
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Joyce Xi
Joyce Xi is a Biomedical Engineering student at the University of British Columbia. She is passionate about developing sex-specific treatments in biomedicine and applications of genetic engineering. Currently, Joyce works in Dr. Elizabeth Rideout’s lab on several projects to investigate sex-linked differences in metabolism and fat storage using fruit flies...
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Judy Segal
I teach courses in history and theory of rhetoric, and in rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine; I am a faculty member in the Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program. My research interests are both interdisciplinary, under the headings of “Science and Technology Studies” and “Health Humanities,” and disciplinary, under...
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Julia Dahlby
Julia Dahlby is a physiotherapist and PhD student at the University of British Columbia. After five years of treating patients with mild traumatic brain injuries, she took her passion for neurological rehabilitation back to academia and joined Dr. Lara Boyd’s Brain Behaviour Lab in 2021. Funded by CIHR, her research...
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Julia Santana Parrilla
Julia Santana Parrilla (she/her) received her MSc from UBC’s School of Population & Public Health in 2020. Her Thesis project “Anxiety and depression during pregnancy: primary antenatal care provider perspectives” provided qualitative descriptions of how anxiety and depression are addressed with pregnant people. Participants (Registered Midwives, Family Physicians, Obstetrician Gynecologists)...
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Julia Yates
Julia Yates is a first year PhD Student at Western University whose research focuses on health-promoting behaviours of equity-deserving populations, such as women experiencing gender-based violence. As an equity researcher, my methods are grounded in an intersectional lens wherein I focus on how the various mechanisms of marginalization impact health...
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Julie Robillard
Dr. Julie Robillard is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia, Scientist in Patient Experience at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital and Director of the Neuroscience, Engagement and Smart Tech (NEST) lab. She is Chair of the Ethical, Legal, Social Impacts Committee of the Canadian Consortium on...
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