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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.
Shana Johnstone
Shana Johnstone (she/her) is a certified structural and stylistic editor with Editors Canada (2015) and a GGS-certified Menopause Coaching Specialist (2023). Shana helps academics, governments, and non-profits to strategically and effectively communicate their work to targeted audiences, and her favourite projects are those that focus on knowledge translation, advocacy, and...
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Shannon Delage
Shannon is an undergraduate student at McGill University in her last year of her Bachelor’s of Science majoring in Kinesiology. She is beginning her Master’s degree in the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory with a profound interest in women and transgender cardiovascular health.
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Shanzeh Ahmad Chaudhry
Shanzeh is a UBC Pharmacy student who is passionate about justice, advocacy and women’s health research! IG: @sc_7801 X: @therealshanzehc
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Shawna Narayan
Shawna Narayan is a graduate student researcher with the CREDA Study in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores the experiences ethnic minorities have with anxiety and depressive resources to help support the creation of culturally responsive e-mental health services. She has an interest...
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Shayna Pierce
Shayna is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Manitoba with a background in psychology, biology, and health studies. Clinically, she is passionate about supporting people experiencing mental health challenges during pregnancy and postpartum, including those who have had traumatic birth experiences or a perinatal loss. Beyond...
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Shela Hirani
Dr. Shela Hirani is a Professor at the University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing, Canada. She is a neonatal and child health nursing professional, academician, researcher, and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. She is actively involved in work surrounding the improvement of health equity, health systems, programs and policies that...
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Shelby Wood
I am a doctoral student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Program within the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. I am supervised by Dr. Pauline Maki and my research focuses on the impact of sleep on women’s mental health (i.e., mood, affect) across the menopause transition.
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Shermeen Imtiaz
Shermeen Imtiaz holds a Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia and is interested in knowledge translation for sexual health, exploring the mechanisms of the menstrual cycle, and the psychological influences on female sexual health. She currently works for the Women’s Health Research Institute and...
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Shernell Hines
Shernell Hines is a Ph.D. student specializing in Health Psychology and completing a collaborative specialization in Women’s Health at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research examines the often-discounted role that emotions and self-concept play in maintaining health and preventing the onset of disease. She is interested in women’s mental...
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Sherri Hayden
Dr. Hayden is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor with the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She has served as a clinical neuropsychologist at UBC Hospital in the Clinic for Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders for over 27 years. Dr. Hayden has...
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Shie Rinat
Shie is a PhD student in the Brain Behaviour Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Lara Boyd. Shie’s passion for stroke research began while working as an occupational therapist in an inpatient neurological rehabilitation unit in Tel-Aviv. Her doctoral work aims to investigate stroke in women, and specifically, the effect...
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Shilpa Rao
Currently pursuing a PhD in Molecular Medicine in Dr. Antoine Louveau’s lab, dept of Neurosciences at Lerner Research Institute. Our lab specializes in Parkinson’s Disease in minority populations, specifically in the Latin American population. My thesis investigates the association between female health factors and the severity of Parkinson’s disease in...
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