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Member News

Rising Researcher Advancing Women’s Brain Health: Dr. Pia Campagna Receives Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award

Dr. Pia Campagna, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a member of the Women’s Health Research Cluster, has been named a recipient of the Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award by the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD). This award recognizes promising early-career researchers advancing innovative research on…
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Rising Researcher and Advocate: Dr. Bonnie Lee Advancing Women’s Brain Health

Dr. Bonnie Lee, Lead of Research and Advocacy at the Women’s Health Research Cluster and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, is emerging as a powerful voice in women’s brain health and Alzheimer’s disease research. Her work is helping to uncover critical sex-specific factors that shape how neurodegenerative diseases develop and progress.…
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Trailblazing: Dr. Neill Epperson Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Neill Epperson, Robert Freedman Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Anschutz School of Medicine, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. This distinction recognizes individuals whose outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service have made a profound impact on the advancement of medical science…
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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.

Kristianni Bance

Kristianni Bance

PhD Student De La Salle University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Kristianni is a PhD clinical psychology student at De La Salle University, Philippines. Her research interests are exploring the Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) experience among young adult Filipino women, resiliency, emotion regulation, and mental health of menstruating young adults with existing clinical disorders and exploring evidenced-based mindfulness for menstruating young...
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Kristin Campbell

Kristin Campbell

Associate Professor University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Kristin Campbell, BSc, PT, PhD is a licensed physical therapist and a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She also an Affiliated Scientist in the Cancer Control Program at the BC Cancer Research Institute. Her research focus is on the...
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Kristin Light

Kristin Light

Keynote Speaker & Workplace Neuroinclusion Specialist K•Light Digital Charisma Gender, Society, and Health
From the boardroom to the ballroom, Kristin Light brings her dynamic expertise as a senior engagement and communications strategist, best-selling author, award-winning speaker, and vivacious entertainer to every stage she graces. As an Autistic ADHD-er with a long history of severe mental illness, Kristin is channeling her extensive lived experience...
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Kristina Deligiannidis

Kristina Deligiannidis

Director, Women's Behavioral Health; Professor of Psychiatry Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Dr. Kristina Deligiannidis is the Director of Women’s Behavioral Health at Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health and a Professor of Psychiatry, Molecular Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York. As Director, she leads a clinical/translational research program and...
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Kristyn Piñeda

Kristyn Piñeda

University of Arizona Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) College of Medicine
Kristyn E. Piñeda, DBH, MHI, is a clinical research and program development professional specializing in addiction medicine, integrated behavioral health care, and health system innovation. She currently serves as a Research Program Administrative Officer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix and...
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Krystyna MacRae

Krystyna MacRae

MSc of neuroscience student University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Krysia is a Master’s student in the Rosin Lab, studying how maternal sleep disruption affects neurodevelopment and offspring behaviour. Her research focuses on how disturbed sleep during pregnancy alters microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte composition in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and the lasting effects on offspring estrous cycles and behaviour. She...
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Kyara Liu

Kyara Liu

Master's student University of Toronto Gender, Society, and Health
Kyara is a first year Master’s of Public Health student at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, specializing in the social and behavioural health sciences stream. She is also a research associate at the Artificial Intelligence for Justice Lab in Toronto. She completed her Honours BA...
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Lainey Cote

Lainey Cote

Senior Undergraduate Student University of Southern California Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Hi! My name is Lainey, and I am a Neuroscience major at the University of Southern California with a minor in the Science and Management of Biomedical Therapeutics. I currently work as a Medical Assistant at Colin Wellness, an OB/GYN practice, where I conduct patient intakes, prepare and groom charts,...
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Lan Zhou

Lan Zhou

PhD student University of Groningen Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
I am a PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. My research focus on the effect of trauma and early-life stress on mental health. I am super interested in how women’s specific factors (e.g., hormones) interact with stress on neurodevelopment and mental health in adolecents.
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Lara Seefeld

Lara Seefeld

Postdoctoral fellow Dalhousie University Gender, Society, and Health Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
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

Assistant Professor Trinity Western University Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
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

Laura Cross

Undergraduate Student Carleton University Gender, Society, and Health
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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