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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.
Rochelle Furtado
Rochelle completed a combined MPT/PhD program at Western University in 2024 and was awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Gold Medal for her academic/research achievements. Her thesis was on creating an accessible education and rehab program for patients prior to a shoulder replacement surgery. Rochelle joins RELEARN as a Postdoctoral Researcher....
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Romina Garcia de leon
Romina is a PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto and CAMH under the supervision of Dr. Liisa Galea in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology. Broadly, Romina wishes to investigate reproductive periods and the neurobiological underpinnings that increase stress vulnerability and depression in females, and subsequently their offspring....
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Rory Marshall
Rory A. Marshall is a paramedic working with British Columbia Emergency Health Services and a PhD Student at the School of Health and Exercise Sciences in the Faculty of Health and Social Development at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Rory earned his Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology and Business at...
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Rozina Somani
I have over 25 years of experience in Nursing. Throughout my career, I have advocated tirelessly for nurses’ rights and protections, focusing especially on nurses facing workplace violence. Currently, I am doing PhD in Nursing from the University of Toronto (UofT) with a Collaborative Specialization in Global Health (CSGH). My...
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Rubee Dev
Dr. Dev received a BScN degree in Nursing from the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal in 2007. She completed her Master’s of Public Health with a specialty in Maternal and Child Health at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, USA in 2014 and her PhD in Nursing Science...
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Ruth Elwood Martin
Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin is a family physician who worked in British Columbia’s provincial correctional centres starting in 1994. In 2005 she became the Inaugural Director of the UBC Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE), a network of academic, community and prison persons interested in improving the health...
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Sabrina Lloyd-Ellis
Sabrina is a MSc candidate in the Women and Children’s Health Sciences stream at UBC. Under the mentorship of Dr. Gillian Hanley, her research focuses on hereditary high-risk groups for gynecological cancers. She specifically investigates preventative interventions for BRCA mutation carriers to reduce the risks of ovarian and breast cancers,...
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Sabrina Luke
Sabrina Luke is an Epidemiologist in the Research and Surveillance group at Perinatal Services British Columbia. She holds a doctoral degree in public health from the University of South Florida with a focus in perinatal epidemiology and has co-authored publications in the areas of tobacco and cannabis use in pregnancy....
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Sabrina Vander Wiele
I am a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Delaware, specializing in quantifying brain mechanics with magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), a noninvasive imaging technique. My research focuses on the relationship between mechanical properties of the brain and neurobiological processes. Currently, we are investigating how...
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Sadaf Sediqi
Sadaf is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia working as a research assistant at the Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis Lab supervised by Dr. Paul Yong. Her research interests explore the symptoms of endometriosis-associated pain affecting women’s health. Current standard treatments for endometriosis are limited in their effectiveness...
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Sahar Ahmadi
I’m Sahar Ahmadi. I’m from Iran. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in midwifery from Zanjan University of Medical Sciences. Since I was a child, I wanted to be able to help women when I grew up. At the age of 18, I decided to study the beautiful field of...
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Sahar Fazeli
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