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Emily Anne Opala2025-09-10 12:00:442025-09-10 10:32:41Dr. Jennifer Williams Receives OBI-Banting Discovery Award for Brain Health ResearchLet us Feature Your Work
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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.
Natalie Kearn
Natalie Kearn is a third year Bachelor of Health Sciences Student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with a keen interest in Women’s Health. She conducts research in the Department of Medicine and Department of Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s University.
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Natalie Scime
Natalie Scime is an Epidemiologist with the Alberta Sex, Gender & Women’s Health Research Hub and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Calgary. Her program of research investigates the relationships between reproductive factors and women’s health and chronic disease risk across the life course. Dr. Scime...
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Natalie Szakun
Since 2020, I’ve been working as a research trainee alongside Dr. Anita Cote, focusing on cardiovascular disease in women. My research explores non-traditional sex-specific risk factors often overlooked in women’s health. Currently studying medicine at UBC’s island medical program- and absolutely loving it! In the future, I aspire to continue...
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Natalie Tronson
Natalie Tronson is a behavioral and molecular neuroscientist interested in sex differences in learning and memory, and psychiatric/neurological disorders associated with alteration of memory, including post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer’s Disease and depression. Dr. Tronson’s work uses mouse models to study how exposure to illness and neuroimmune activation, stress, or hormone...
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Natasha Orr
Endometriosis is a gynaecologic condition that affects 10% of women, and 50% of those women have deep dyspareunia (pelvic pain with deep penetration during sexual activity). This pain negatively affects sexual function and relationships. Factors that play a role in deep dyspareunia may be peripheral (e.g., location of endometriotic nodules)...
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Natasha Zippan
Natasha received her BA in Psychology with High Distinction from UBC and is currently a clinical psychology grad student at Queen’s University, working under the supervision of Dr. Meredith Chivers. She is working towards becoming a clinical psychologist specializing in sex research. Her clinical interests are sexual health, sexual dysfunctions,...
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Neelam Punjani
Neelam Punjani is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She has received her BScN and MScN at Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery from Karachi, Pakistan. Shortly after, she began working actively within the community advocating for young people’s sexual and reproductive health...
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Negar Mousavi
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Neha Pattar
Neha Pattar recently graduate from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences. She is now pursuing a Master’s in Medical Science at the Cumming School of Medicine under the supervision of Dr. Sandra Dumanski. Her research focuses on women’s health, examining how both cardiovascular and kidney...
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Neil Vasdev
Prof. Neil Vasdev is the Director and Chief Radiochemist of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Brain Health Imaging Centre, and the Director of the Azrieli Centre for Neuro-Radiochemistry at CAMH. He is also the endowed Azrieli Chair in Brain and Behaviour, and a Tier 1 Canada Research...
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Nice Mathew
Nice is an Associate Professor in the Department of Musculoskeletal and Sports at Acharya’s NR Institute of Physiotherapy, Bengaluru. She is the founder of Founder of Dr. Nice Physiotherapy Centre and has a passion in women’s health and extensive experience in supporting women of all ages. Nice received her PhD...
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Nichole Fairbrother
Dr. Nichole Fairbrother is a registered psychologist and Clinical Associate Professor with the UBC Department of Family Practice and the Island Medical Program. She a perinatal mental health investigator and head of the UBC Perinatal Anxiety Disorder Research Lab (PARLab). Dr. Fairbrother’s research is in the area of perinatal anxiety...
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