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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.

Lori Brotto

Lori Brotto

Professor University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
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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Louisa Schilling

Louisa Schilling

PhD Candidate Weill Cornell Medicine Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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 Fowler

Doctoral Student Memorial University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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

PhD Student University of Toronto Gender, Society, and Health
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

Postdoctoral Fellow University College London Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
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

Lydia Wytenbroek

Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Gender, Society, and Health School of Nursing
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

M. Natasha Rajah

Professor McGill University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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 Hancock

Graduate Student University of Calgary Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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 Matthews

MSc Student Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; University of Toronto Gender, Society, and Health
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

Madeline Doucette

PhD Student University of Victoria Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
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 Wood

PhD Student University of Toronto Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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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