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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.
Lara Seefeld
Dr. Lara Seefeld is a psychologist and works as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, Canada. Her research focuses on parents’ subjective birth experience, perinatal mental health, family relationships, and sexual well-being in the transition to parenthood. She is a committee member and the Early Career Researcher Representative at the...
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Larissa Rossen
Larissa Rossen is an Assistant Professor in the MA Counselling Psychology Program at Trinity Western University. Her research interests span the early developmental years and focus on perinatal mental health, perinatal loss and grief, maternal identity, maternal attachment and bonding, emotional availability, family systems, and development. Her primary approach to...
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Laura Cross
My name is Laura Cross, a health sciences student at Carleton University! As a former track and field athlete, I noticed a phenomena called Relative Energy Deficiency Syndrome in Sport, which has a major gap in research regarding long-term fertility and bone health outcomes. I have since written a literature...
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Laura Fitzgibbon-Collins
Laura Fitzgibbon-Collins (she/her) completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo in cerebrovascular hemodynamics, postural stability, gait dynamics, and falls in older adults. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Western University in the Department of Medicine and funded by the Alzheimer Society of Canada. Her research focuses on how...
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Laura Gravelsins
My primary research investigates the influence of ovarian hormone deprivation on brain health. I study memory, and its relationships to sleep disruption, oxidative stress, and brain structure, in middle-aged women with prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (surgical removal of both ovaries and fallopian tubes) prior to spontaneous (natural) menopause. This is a...
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Laura Matthes
Laura is a PhD student at the Department of Gynecology at Leipzig University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Science in Early Childhood Research. Her PhD studies focus on the relevance of continuous core body temperature data for conception, pregnancy and women’s health research....
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Laura Naysmith
Dr Laura Naysmith is a Research Associate at King’s College London, specialising in the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to explore neuropharmacological effects on brain function for novel drug development. In addition, Dr Naysmith investigates the intersection of cognition and mental health in loss of ovarian function at menopause...
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Laura Pritschet
Laura Pritschet is a graduate student working with Dr. Emily Jacobs in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She leverages techniques from network neuroscience and neuroendocrinology to explore how sex steroid hormones impact human brain function across hormonal transition periods. The goal of her research...
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Laura Schummers
Dr. Laura Schummers, ScD, is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist. After completing her doctorate of science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Schummers joined the Contraception and Abortion Research Team in the Department of Family Practice at UBC as a postdoctoral fellow. She is now an...
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Laura St Clair
Laura is a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the lab of Dr. Sabra Klein. She received her Ph.D. in molecular virology, where she focused on understanding how RNA viruses manipulate and alter host metabolism during infection to support viral replication. In Dr. Klein’s lab, Laura’s research focuses on...
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Lauren Drogos
Lauren finished her doctorate in Psychology in 2014. She began working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Women’s Mental Health Research Program in 2005 and completed her Master’s Thesis in 2009 on “Endogenous Oxytocin across the Menstrual Cycle and with Oral Contraceptive Use: Effects on Verbal Memory and Mood...
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Lauren Hayes
Lauren Hayes is a communications professional and small business owner based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With a passion for improving women’s health, Lauren specializes in health communications, working with organizations across the healthcare ecosystem to amplify important stories, drive meaningful conversations, and empower positive change. As the founder of her...
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