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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.
Karen Mason
Karen Mason is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Brain Injury through Research (SOAR), the only non-profit organization in Canada with a singular focus on brain injury (BI) from intimate partner violence (IPV). SOAR explores the incidence and effects of IPV-BI, and works to develop, disseminate...
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Karline Wilson-Mitchell
Karline Wilson-Mitchell is passionate about reproductive justice that informs midwifery education, practice and global partnerships. Since 1992, Karline’s clinical work grew from the U.S. (urban and rural) to Canada (Ontario, remote Quebec) and then to midwifery education and leadership building in the Global South (Jamaica, Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi, South Sudan)....
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Karolina Skibicka
Dr. Karolina P Skibicka is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary. She previously held the position of Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Associate Professor in the Department of Nutritional...
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Karthryn Murphy
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Kassa Maksudi
I am a researcher and activist with a background in Psychology, Criminology, and Health Promotion. I am originally from Burundi and moved to South Africa as a refugee in the late 1990s. My work focuses on violence against women and children in disadvantaged and marginalized communities in South Africa. Specifically,...
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Kate Kennedy
Kate is a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow investigating the critical role of host-microbe interactions in maternal and neonatal health within a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) framework. Her research focuses on how the microbiome influences maternal adaptations during pregnancy, neonatal microbial colonization patterns, and infection susceptibility across the perinatal...
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Kate Shannon
Dr. Shannon (she/her) is a Professor of Social Medicine and Associate Faculty in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She holds an inaugural CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair aimed at advancing more inclusive and equitable sexual health research, policy, practice. Her research...
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Kate Wahl
Kate Wahl is a researcher interested in new strategies for moving evidence into health policy and practice. As a PhD student in the Reproductive and Developmental Sciences program at the University of British Columbia, she uses qualitative methods to develop and evaluate approaches for sharing research evidence with stakeholders including...
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Katerina Rnic
Dr. Katerina Rnic received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Western Ontario and completed her clinical internship at the Calgary Clinical Psychology Residency. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Joelle LeMoult’s Depression, Anxiety, and Stress (DAS) Lab and in Dr. Raymond Lam’s Lab in the...
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Katherine Cox-Reiff
At 27 years old, Katherine is a dedicated mother of two and a first-year medical student whose journey reflects passion, resilience, and purpose. Her academic path began early — starting college at just 16 years old — where she pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing at Southern New Hampshire University...
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Kathrin Stoll
I am a reproductive health researcher and quantitative data analyst, with an interdisciplinary educational background (social sciences and public health) and postdoctoral training in population health, and primary care research. I work closely with clinicians, on various reproductive research & policy projects, in Canada, the United States, and Europe. I...
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Kathryn Corbett
Kathryn Corbett is a first-year resident physician at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. She is conducting research in women’s health among nephrology patients under the supervision of Dr. Sandra Dumanski. Specifically, her research is focused on better understanding sexual dysfunction in women with chronic kidney disease to...
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