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Emily Anne Opala2025-09-10 12:00:442025-09-10 10:32:41Dr. Jennifer Williams Receives OBI-Banting Discovery Award for Brain Health ResearchLet us Feature Your Work
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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.
Thea Cacchioni
Joined UVic Gender Studies in 2011 My research examines the medicalization of sex, gender, and sexuality, broadly, as well as through specific diagnoses such as Female Sexual Dysfunction and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. I am interested in the ways in which doctors, psychiatrists, and more recently, drug companies shape understandings of...
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Thish Rajapakshe
Thish is a senior undergraduate student studying Molecular Biochemistry and Philosophy at UBC Okanagan. She is passionate about health equity, policy, and leveraging quality improvement science for the enhancement of women’s health. Her research areas of interest include the study of interpersonal factors affecting smoking cessation in young women and...
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Thuy-vy Nguyen
Dr. Thuy-vy T. Nguyen is the Principal Investigator of the Solitude Lab and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Durham University, UK. Her research examines how solitude contributes to emotional well-being and stress regulation. She is currently leading a three-year ESRC-funded project investigating women’s experiences of solitude during the transition...
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Tiffany Kuku
Tiffany Kuku is a psychology student at the University of Northern British Columbia, pursuing a major in psychology with a potential minor in women’s studies. She is deeply passionate about mental health, social equity, and fostering inclusive practices in research. Tiffany’s academic interests center on exploring the intersections of mental...
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Tim Oberlander
Dr. Tim Oberlander is a physician-scientist whose work bridges developmental neurosciences and community child health. He is a developmental pediatrician and works as the medical lead for the Complex Pain Service at BC Children’s Hospital. Since 1996, Dr Oberlander has led a research program seeking to understand how early life...
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Tina Kabir
I am pursuing a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto. My research in Dr. Laurie Zawertailo’s lab at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health investigates the effects of ovarian hormones on tobacco smoking treatment and cessation.
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Tina Kim
Tina Montreuil
Dr. Tina C. Montreuil is an Associate Professor in the department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and an Associate Member of the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at McGill University, as well as the director of Childhood Anxiety and Regulation of Emotions Laboratory C.A.R.E.Research Group. She is a Scientist at...
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Tiscar Graells
I am a bioinformatician and a clinical microbiologist (PhD in Microbiology (2018),MSc in Bioinformatics (2023), MSc in Applied Microbiology (2012) and BSc in Clinical Biology and Microbiology (2011)). Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden) where I work with microbiome and multi-omics studies using data...
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Tishani Thiviyakumar
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Toktam Movassagh
Toktam is an incoming medical student at UBC, having graduated from UBC in 2023 with a major in Biology and a minor in Health and Society. She has worked in the Berman Lab on public health projects related to COVID-19 decision-making in BC and in the Bamji Lab on neuroscience...
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Travis Hodges
Dr. Travis Hodges is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Travis studies sex differences in stress, as well as how stress affects cognitive biases. He completed his PhD at Brock University and was then a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology...
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