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Kristyn Piñeda
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
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 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
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
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
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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