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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.
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 Brotto
Lori A. Brotto, PhD, R Psych is the Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Dr. Brotto is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, with a Joint Appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. She holds a Canada Research Chair...
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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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Lucy Muir
Lucy Muir is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Gillian Einstein. Lucy specializes in qualitative health research that aims to gain a holistic understanding of women’s lived experiences and how they relate to cognitive health outcomes. Lucy is primarily interested in menopause. She...
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Luzia Troebinger
Luzia Troebinger completed her PhD at the UCL Functional Imaging Laboratory under the supervision of Gareth Barnes and Sven Bestmann. While she focused quite heavily on electrophysiological data in her early career, she always had a strong interest in psychopharmacology, neuroendocrinology and their clinical applications. She initially pursued this interest...
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Lydia Wytenbroek
Dr. Wytenbroek is a social historian of twentieth-century health care, with a particular interest in understanding and interpreting the historical forces that have shaped the nursing profession and practice. She draws on historical research, sociology, feminist studies and social justice to explore the history of health care and nursing through...
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M. Natasha Rajah
Dr. M. Natasha Rajah received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, and did her post-doctoral training at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley. She joined the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and Douglas...
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Mack Hancock
Mack is a Master’s student in the Clinical Neuroscience program at the University of Calgary, where his research investigates persisting post-concussion symptoms. His research is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Chantel Debert and includes a clinical trial examining the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of psilocybin-assisted therapy for this condition....
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Madeleine Matthews
Madeleine is a graduate student at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto and a Research Trainee at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Her work examines how sex and gender are conceptualized, integrated, and reported in clinical research. Through her research with RareKids-CAN, a national pediatric rare...
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