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Vanessa Luk
Vanessa is a medical student at McMaster Medical School, and is interested in psychiatry.
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Vanny Pornsinsiriruk
I am a graduate student in the department of Microbiology and Immunology at UBC. My research focuses on vaccine development for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), an STI that disproportionately affects women. I am interested in the connections we can make between women’s/global health, immunity, vaccinology, and public health...
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Varinder Randhawa
Dr. Varinder Kaur Randhawa is completing her critical care fellowship training at the University of Toronto, having completed MD-PhD, internal medicine, core cardiology, heart failure-transplant cardiology and post-doctoral clinical, quality improvement and translational research training at the University of Toronto, Western University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She currently serves as...
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Vasileia Karasavva
Vasileia Karasavva is a Vanier Scholar and a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her research program explores multiple facets of cyber aggression with a special interest in technology-facilitated sexual violence. She is passionate about understanding who is affected by it, why some choose to...
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Veronica Guadagni
I am a Senior Research Scientist at Cerebra. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Human Cerebrovascular Physiology in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, under Dr. Marc Poulin. Since 2017, I have been working on findings from the Brain in Motion I...
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Victoria Bernaud
She is currently a 5th-year graduate student working towards her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University under the mentorship of Dr. Heather Bimonte-Nelson. She is interested in the role of ovarian hormone changes across the lifespan in influencing the trajectory of healthy cognitive...
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Victoria Paller
Victoria is an MSc student in the WACH program at UBC. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with an Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences Degree in 2022. During this time, she completed an Honours thesis with Dr. Angel Foster. This research used a mixed-methods approach to explore how COVID-19...
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Victoria Riehl-Tonn
Victoria is a MSc student in Medical Science at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. Under the supervision of Dr. Sofia Ahmed, her research focuses on the association between sex related differences and dialysis adequacy in both peritoneal dialysis and the home hemodialysis population. She recently graduated in...
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Wansu Qiu
My thesis investigates the effects of maternal postpartum antidepressant exposure, and how this pharmacological treatment affects both the mother and offspring in a rat model of postpartum depression. And whether there are dietary interventions (such as folate/folic acid) can be an effective treatment for PPD. My expertise includes knowing a...
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Wendy Norman
Wendy V. Norman, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DTM&H, MHSc, is a Professor in the Department of Family Practice, and an Associate Member in both the School of Population and Public Health, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr....
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Whitney Qualls
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Whitney Wood
Dr. Whitney Wood is Canada Research Chair in the Historical Dimensions of Women’s Health at Vancouver Island University. Her work focuses on histories of pregnancy, childbirth, obstetrics and gynecology in nineteenth and twentieth century Canada, and she is especially interested in exploring the historical roots of current healthcare inequities, particularly...
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