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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.
Martha Mackay
Dr. Mackay spent 40 years at St. Paul’s Hospital, 25 of which as the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Cardiology at the Heart Centre. For the last 12 years she has functioned as a clinician-scientist, combining the roles of CNS and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia...
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Mary Bryson
Dr. Mary K. Bryson is Senior Associate Dean, Administration, Faculty Affairs & Innovation and Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Bryson’s program of research is designed so as to contribute foundational scholarship concerning access to knowledge, gender...
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Mary Stern
She works as a physiotherapist clinician at Women’s Hospital in the area of obstetrics. They support women’s health at a critical time in their lives from both a biomedical and psychosocial perspective. As a provincial resource we aim to expand our capacity to treat vulnerable mothers perinatally in remote areas,...
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Maryana Kravtsenyuk
I, Dr. Maryana Kravtsenyuk (MD, MSc, FRCPC), am a medical doctor with a speciality in psychiatry, and a subspeciality in forensic psychiatry; I am on the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada subspeciality register. I completed psychiatric training at the University of Alberta in 2015 and a forensic...
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Masarra Al Dakka
I was an Iraqi refugee residing in Turkey, and I had the fortune of migrating to Canada about 8 years ago with the hope of becoming a doctor. I then began working toward that goal, but I had very little support and was immediately overwhelmed by the Canadian education system....
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Mateja Perovic
Cognitive neuroscientist interested in women’s brain health, mixed methods, and sex and gender science. My primary research interest is in the effects of ovarian hormones on cognition, with a focus on category learning across the menstrual cycle. I have previously studied cognition in women with early estradiol deprivation, and in...
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Mathilde Cass
Mathilde is a PhD student at the University of Lausanne and she coordinates the Swiss-wide SHINE project, hosted at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). Throughout an academic background in medical anthropology (University of Oxford) and bioethics (University of Montreal), her work has been exploring the ethical, legal, and social dimensions...
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Maya Iturra
For the past 20 years I have dedicated my life both in academia and as an activist to deepening my understanding and responsibility to embracing social justice with an intersectionality framework. As a PhD student I hope to continue to address issues of inequity and lack of diversity in the...
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Maya Koblanski
Maya Koblanski is a passionate and motivated undergraduate in her third year of Behavioural Neuroscience at UBC. She has worked in the Viau Lab for the past year and a half researching sex differences in stress coping responses, recently under an NSERC USRA, and is now starting her directed studies...
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Maya Libben
Dr. Maya Libben is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the lead investigator of the PLAN Lab at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. She is also a registered clinical psychologist (#2167) with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia. Dr. Libben completed her Bachelor of Science at the...
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Maya Zaidan
Maya Zaidan is a mental health advocate at heart. She has a diverse set of research experiences which began with the Neurodiversity Foundation in Amsterdam in 2020, and most recently, she has completed her MSc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, which included a practicum...
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Md Saiful Alam
Saiful is starting his PhD at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He is part of the FOCAL research team that is fighting against cervical cancer worldwide. His overall research goal is to improve women’s health by contributing to the elimination of cervical cancer through the lens...
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