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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.
Leonora Angeles
Leonora (Nora) C Angeles is Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is currently the Graduate Program Advisor of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also faculty...
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Lexia Bao
Lexia Bao is a fourth year undergraduate student at UBC. She’s currently a member of the Viau Lab researching stress-induced sex differences and will begin her co-op term at the lab in September.
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Lianna Wat
Dr. Lianna Wat’s research interests focus on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying how males and females regulate energy metabolism differently. Lianna completed her PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology in Dr. Elizabeth Rideout’s lab at the University of British Columbia. During her PhD, Lianna identified novel functions for metabolic genes...
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Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen
Dr. Tomfohr-Madsen’s research harnesses methodology from clinical and counselling psychology, health psychology and public health to understand intersectional risk and resilience factors that contribute to the development of psychological distress in parents and children. Her research aims to refine and disseminate psychological interventions to improve parent and child mental health,...
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Linda Olsen
Award-winning journalist Linda Olsen has been part of the broadcast news landscape in Canada for decades. She is a familiar face and trusted journalist who has shared the stories of her hometown of Calgary, Alberta and beyond since 1988 when she graduated with Honours from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology...
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Lindsay Lew
Lindsay is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Exercise Physiology and Cardiovascular Health Lab in the Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Lindsay earned her BSc in Kinesiology from Queen’s University. She then continued her graduate studies at Queen’s receiving her MSc and...
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Lindsay Oliver
Dr. Lindsay Oliver is a Staff Scientist in the Brain Health Imaging Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Oliver completed her MSc in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology at the University of Edinburgh,...
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Lisa Ceroni
Health professional with more than 7 years experience in employee training and learning management, and over 15 years of clinical research experience. Hold a Master of Public Health, a Master of Science, a Bachelor of Science, and a general love of learning. I enjoy building relationships with diverse groups of...
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Livia Cosentino
My long-term research goal involve the development of a comprehensive understanding of key brain mechanisms and how their alterations contribute to mental disorders. My academic training and research experience to date have provided me with an excellent background in behavioral neuroscience in both preclinical and clinical settings. As an undergraduate...
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Lori Canes
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Louisa Schilling
Louisa Schilling is a PhD candidate working in the Computational Connectomics (CoCo) Labortatory at Weill Cornell Medicine. Louisa received an Honours Bachelor’s of Science from University in Toronto in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science and her Masters of Science in Neuroscience from the Berlin School of Mind & Brain (Humboldt-Universität zu...
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Lucas Fowler
Lucas F. Fowler (he/they) is a doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Ashlyn Swift-Gallant and Lindsay Cahill at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Lucas is broadly interested in behavioural neuroendocrinology and uses mouse models to study the effects of various exposures (e.g., infection, micro- and nanoplastics, and housing...
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