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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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Madeline Doucette
I am in the second year of my doctoral degree at the University of Victoria majoring in clinical neuropsychology. I completed my Master’s of Science in Clinical Neuropsychology also at the University of Victoria in the summer of 2021. My interests are primarily in the effects of exercise and sports...
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Madeline Wood
Madeline is a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Rabin at University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Research Institute. Her doctoral research aims to understand how sex differences risk and protective factors contribute to female vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease. Madeline’s research leverages sensitive neuropsychological measures, mutlimodal neuroimaging, and...
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Madison Lackie
Madison Lackie, a Master’s of Science student in the UBC Reproductive and Developmental Sciences program, working primarily out of the Women’s Health Research Institute at BC Women’s Hospital. Her research interests focus on postpartum depression and the use of technology to support healthcare. Madison completed her Bachelor of Science with...
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Magdalena Martínez-García
Dr. Martínez García, a postdoctoral researcher in human neuroscience, holds a degree in Biotechnology from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2015) and a master’s degree in Neuroscience from the Universitat de Barcelona (2016). She completed her PhD in Biomedical Science and Technology (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) at the Group...
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Maggie Woo Kinshella
Maggie Woo Kinshella (@MaggieWooK on Twitter) is the Global Health Research Coordinator with PRE-EMPT (PREgnancy Evidence, Monitoring, Partnerships and Treatment), IMCHA (Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa) and BEMEQ (Burden Ethnographic Modeling Evaluation Qaujilisaaqtuq) projects in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pathology at UBC. She works...
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Maha Khawaja
Maha Khawaja is a Health and Society PhD student at McMaster University conducting sexual health, wellbeing, and relationship research in a social psychology lab. Her focus is on how life-altering experiences such as cancer, radiation treatment, and pelvic pain shape intimacy and dyadic experiences. Maha’s goal is to develop better...
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