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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.
Paul Vander is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Stephanie Correa at UCLA. His work focuses on revealing the neuroendocrine pathways through which estrogens exert their protective effects on metabolism and energy expenditure.
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Dr. Paul Yong, MD, PhD, FRCSC is a gynecologist with fellowship training in minimally invasive surgery, and Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Dr. Yong is Director of the UBC OB/GYN Residency Rotation in Chronic Pelvic Pain and Minimally Invasive Surgery, and Co-Director of the UBC...
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Dr. Paula Duarte-Guterman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brock University and the Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Neuroscience. She completed her PhD at the University of Ottawa investigating the interactions of thyroid and sex steroid hormones during frog development. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship...
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Dr. Paula Gordon is Clinical Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include breast ultrasound for diagnosis and for supplemental screening for women with dense breasts. She is best known academically for her paper in Cancer in 1995, the first to prove...
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I have done my master in Italy working on Oxidative response in normal and overweight pregnant women. currently I am PhD student at UBC, I am working on Endometriosis and mutation related to it in department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
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Academic & Researcher | Women’s Health Advocate | Vaginal Microbiome and Sexually Transmitted Infections Expert Dr. Piet Cools is an esteemed academic and researcher affiliated with Ghent University, Belgium. With over a decade of experience, his work focuses on advancing women’s health through groundbreaking research on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), vaginal...
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Piper graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSc in Biology in 2021. She is now a Clinical Research Coordinator at The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, as well as the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Advisor for Shoelace Learning.
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I am a passionate Biotech student who has developed a deep fascination for immunology, infectious diseases, and pathobiology. Throughout my academic journey, I have discovered the complexity and the incredible potential of immunology to transform healthcare. This fascinationhas propelled me towards a career in biotechnology. As a prospective Biotech student,...
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Prapti Chauhan is a professor of Genetics in Bangalore. She has contributed to several online research papers. However, she passionately develops contents on pregnancy, childbirth, childcare and stem cell banking and umbilical cord lining and more.
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Puja Biswas’s research interests focus on understanding sex-difference in energy metabolism regulated by insulin-signaling pathway. Using Drosophila (fruit fly), Puja Biswas is doing her PhD study at Rideout Lab to better understand how males and females maintain their stored fat. Puja Biswas completed her BSc and MSc in Biochemistry and...
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I am a Master’s student in the CELL program studying how maternal stress alters the activity of microglia during embryogenesis, leading to neurodevelopmental disorders. Publications: Collins, Q. P., Grunsted, M. J., Arcila, D., Xiong, Y., & Padash Barmchi, M. (2023). Transcriptomic analysis provides insight into the mechanism of IKKβ-mediated suppression...
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Dr. Rachel Ollivier is a determined advocate for women’s and maternal health, specifically postpartum sexual health, both locally and globally. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UBC Okanagan (2016), a PhD in Nursing from Dalhousie University (2022), a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Diploma from Queen’s University...
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