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Robert Colonna
Robert is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He serves as a Board Member of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals and Chair of its Young Professionals’ Committee. His research focuses on enhancing public health through road safety interventions, particularly in the context...
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Robert-Paul Juster
Dr. Juster’s research focuses on stress and resilience using a sex and gender lens. His research focuses on teasing apart the role of biological sex and socio-cultural gender in explaining pathways that render us vulnerable or resilient to stress-related disease. Dr. Juster has become an expert in the measurement of...
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Robyn Bresler
I am a Registered Nurse & Board Certified Health & Wellness Nurse Coach. I primarily work with women to heal through nervous system dysregulation & stress hormone imbalances. I want to help revolutionize healthcare by assisting to emphasize the importance behind hormonal health.
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Robyn McQuaid
Dr. Robyn McQuaid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University and a Scientist at the Royal Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) in the Culture & Gender Research unit. Dr. McQuaid’s research examines the impacts of stressors and traumatic experiences on mental health disorders among...
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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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Rushdia Ahmed
An aspiring global health and health systems researcher. Currently a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. I started my career as a trainee researcher in the Health Systems and Population Studies Division at icddr,b, an international health research institution based in Bangladesh, in 2013. In the following 5 years,...
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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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