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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.
Lauren Kobylski
Lauren Kobylski, MPH is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at George Washington University with a long-standing commitment to improving perinatal mental health outcomes. Her background bridges psychology and public health with training in both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her current work uses mixed methods to explore risk and protective...
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Le Tam Nhan Nguyen
Le Tam Nhan is a research scientist with a comprehensive understanding of cell and molecular biology. She has extensive experience in various biochemical and cell-based assays, focusing on gene and protein expression in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems. Le Tam Nhan is proficient in experiment design, planning, execution, and statistical...
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Leah Sarah Peer
Leah Sarah Peer is a Medical Student, Global Health Fellow and a Graduate with a Specialization in Biology & a Minor in Human Rights. She is the Founder & Executive Director of the Peer Medical Foundation (PMF), an aspiring youth-led international not-for-profit organization advancing health equity, diversity & inclusion. She...
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Leanne Laur
Leanne is a grassroots women’s health advocate and lived-experience leader focused on bridging disability, mental health, and women’s healthcare gaps through practical, community-driven solutions. Her advocacy began after her own cervical cancer journey and the challenges she faced navigating disability systems, mental health supports, and inconsistent care pathways. Instead of...
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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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Liisa Galea
Liisa Galea leads the Women’s Health Research Cluster and is the inaugural womenmind Treliving Family Chair in Women’s Mental Health, Senior Scientist at CAMH, the Principal Editor of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, the President of Organization for the Study of Sex Differences and co-Vice-President of Canadian Organisation for Sex and Gender Research. She serves...
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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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