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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.
Umi Umar
I am an international medical graduate from Nigeria, currently on my journey to practice here in Canada. I am a CPSBC-licensed clinical trainee doing clinical observerships in the family medicine. I am a women’s health advocate, I would love to get involved and join this beautiful community.
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Vaishnavi Cherukupalli
I’m a student entering the master’s in women’s health program at the University of South Florida. I recently graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from Smith College. I am deeply passionate about understanding the intersection between social determinants of health, sex-specific risk factors, and health outcomes in women. I...
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Valeria Garau
I am a Trainee Clinical Psychologist on the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) programme at the University of Glasgow. My project involves co-developing a perinatal mental health screening measure for neurodiverse birthing people with experts by experience, as well as the initial psychometric evaluation of this measure.
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Valerie Moran
Valerie Kristen Moran, MSW, RSW is a Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist with 7+ years of experience across healthcare and non-profit sectors in Canada. She specializes in supporting women, young adults and early career professionals navigating ADHD, financial stress/trauma, and relationship challenges at one of Canada’s top virtual mental health...
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Vanessa Luk
Vanessa is a medical student at McMaster Medical School, and is interested in psychiatry.
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Vanina Veeraragoo
I am a medical student based in Cyprus with a strong interest in obstetrics and gynecology, particularly endometriosis, chronic pelvic pain, and gynecologic oncology. I have been involved in developing evidence-based patient education resources to improve awareness and accessibility in women’s health. I also have experience contributing to research projects,...
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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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