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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.
Jellina Prinsen
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Jenalene Antony
Jenalene Antony opened a design studio in Saskatchewan with a focus on rural issues. As a designer she has worked on teams with Environment Canada, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Calgary telling stories about sustainability and social change. She previously worked on a largely Ukrainian settlement that...
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Jenalyn Ormita
Jenalyn (she/her) is a PhD student in Psychology at the University of Toronto and a Research Associate at The Immigrant Education Society Centre for Immigrant Research. Her PhD research focuses on the aging experiences of African immigrant women in Canada, including an exploration of their risk and resilience factors for...
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Jennifer (Jia Yu) Zhang
Jennifer is an undergraduate student at UBC currently completing her BKIN. She is currently a research study coordinator at UBC Sexual Health Research for the JUNIPER project, which is examining the differences in neural correlates of sexual response between women with and without sexual interest and arousal disorder (SIAD). She...
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Jennifer Khoury
Jennifer Khoury, PhD, R.Psych, is an Assistant Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies in Neuroscience, in the Department of Psychology at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research program adopts a multi-method approach to understand how early life stress impacts parents and children, from the prenatal period...
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Jennifer Monaghan
She was only 43 when, without any risk factors or symptoms, Jennifer Monaghan’s stroke and discovery of cardiomyopathy happened. After relearning her ABC’s and 123’s as well as regaining use of her right side, she turned to volunteering and found a meaningful path forward. A lawyer by training, she is...
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Jennifer Richard
My research focuses on the effects of diet and metabolic status on learning and memory and sex differences in these effects. I finished my BSc and MSc in Pharmacology at the University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and completed my PhD at the Institution for Neuroscience and Physiology and the University...
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Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Kinesiology, focusing on women’s cardiovascular physiology and health research. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto studying clinical cardiovascular physiology. Her research focuses on improving heart and artery health outcomes through lifestyle interventions (diet,...
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Jenny Rabin
Dr. Jenny Rabin is a Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and a registered neuropsychologist. Her research focuses on optimizing brain health and exploring innovative treatments for neurological and psychiatric conditions, with a particular emphasis on sex differences in brain aging and disease....
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Jerilynn C. Prior
Jerilynn C. Prior BA, MD, FRCPC is a Professor Emerita of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of British Columbia researching with community women+ the endocrinology of women’s reproduction, menstrual cycles and the prevalence of ovulation and its disturbances. Her work shows profound implications of Subclinical Ovulatory Disturbances that silently...
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Jesse Lacasse
Jesse is a PhD student in Behavioural Neuroscience at Concordia University in Montreal. He is a researcher at the Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, where he examines the effects of steroid hormones on cognition.
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Jessica Booth
Jessica Booth is an Undergraduate Science student at the University of British Columbia studying Behavioural Neuroscience. She plans on testing and developing medication and medical procedures oriented to the betterment of women’s health. Currently, she is investigating impulsivity in bipolar, stimulant users and gamblers to develop procedures for biological treatments....
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