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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.
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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Lindsey Snaychuk
Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate studying gender differences in addictive behaviours
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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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