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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.
Marie Gaine
The Gaine Lab is dedicated to understanding the role of genetics and epigenetics in the development and treatment of psychiatric disorders, and how environmental factors can influence this. Projects primarily focus on DNA methylation and methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) as well as novel biomarkers such as extracellular vesicles and...
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Marie Johns
(Kelly) Marie Johns is a PhD Candidate in Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is recognized for her academic contributions and publications in translational neuroscience, where she utilizes high-dimensional single-cell transcriptomics to investigate how sex-specific mechanisms and neurovascular dysfunction drive Alzheimer’s disease. Marie’s work...
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Marissa Doroshuk
I began my education in this field with my Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation degree (First Class Honors). Since then, I have developed my skills and knowledge by getting certified as an Exercise Physiologist (CSEP-CEP), specializing in applied women’s physiology, and yoga teacher training. Currently, I am...
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Marjon de Vos
I am an assistant professor at GELIFES at University of Groningen (The Netherlands) where I investigate the ecology and evolution of bacteria derived from polymicrobial (infectious) ecosystems, and antibiotic resistance. My group particularly focusses on the ecology and evolution of microbiomes in urinary tract infections. I teach and coordinate the...
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Marta Kolbuszewska
Marta is a graduate student in the clinical psychology program at UBC. Her research interests centre around understanding processes contributing to sexual well-being in individuals and couples. She is particularly interested in using longitudinal data analytic techniques to better understand factors that influence the development of sexual problems over time,...
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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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