Our Expert Database is designed to connect you with multidisciplinary women’s health researchers, professors, post-doctoral fellows, and more. Use this platform to find a collaborator for your research project, identify an expert to comment on current events or discover a supervisor for your graduate work. On top of that, if you’re seeking trainees to support your work you can find them here too.

You may find experts by name, career type, and/or by entering keywords in the “area of research expertise” to narrow your search. For instance, if your research focus is brain health and understanding progressive disease, you can find experts with knowledge in these areas by entering keywords like “Alzheimer’s” or “Dementia”.

Lainey Cote

Lainey Cote

Senior Undergraduate Student University of Southern California Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Hi! My name is Lainey, and I am a Neuroscience major at the University of Southern California with a minor in the Science and Management of Biomedical Therapeutics. I currently work as a Medical Assistant at Colin Wellness, an OB/GYN practice, where I conduct patient intakes, prepare and groom charts,...
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Lan Zhou

Lan Zhou

PhD student University of Groningen Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
I am a PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. My research focus on the effect of trauma and early-life stress on mental health. I am super interested in how women’s specific factors (e.g., hormones) interact with stress on neurodevelopment and mental health in adolecents.
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Lara Seefeld

Lara Seefeld

Postdoctoral fellow Dalhousie University Gender, Society, and Health Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Dr. Lara Seefeld is a psychologist and works as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, Canada. Her research focuses on parents’ subjective birth experience, perinatal mental health, family relationships, and sexual well-being in the transition to parenthood. She is a committee member and the Early Career Researcher Representative at the...
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Larissa Rossen

Larissa Rossen

Assistant Professor Trinity Western University Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Larissa Rossen is an Assistant Professor in the MA Counselling Psychology Program at Trinity Western University. Her research interests span the early developmental years and focus on perinatal mental health, perinatal loss and grief, maternal identity, maternal attachment and bonding, emotional availability, family systems, and development. Her primary approach to...
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Laura Cross

Laura Cross

Undergraduate Student Carleton University Gender, Society, and Health
My name is Laura Cross, a health sciences student at Carleton University! As a former track and field athlete, I noticed a phenomena called Relative Energy Deficiency Syndrome in Sport, which has a major gap in research regarding long-term fertility and bone health outcomes. I have since written a literature...
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Laura Fitzgibbon-Collins

Laura Fitzgibbon-Collins

Postdoctoral Fellow Western University Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) Department of Medicine
Laura Fitzgibbon-Collins (she/her) completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo in cerebrovascular hemodynamics, postural stability, gait dynamics, and falls in older adults. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Western University in the Department of Medicine and funded by the Alzheimer Society of Canada. Her research focuses on how...
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Laura Gravelsins

Laura Gravelsins

PhD Student University of Toronto Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
My primary research investigates the influence of ovarian hormone deprivation on brain health. I study memory, and its relationships to sleep disruption, oxidative stress, and brain structure, in middle-aged women with prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (surgical removal of both ovaries and fallopian tubes) prior to spontaneous (natural) menopause. This is a...
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Laura Matthes

Laura Matthes

PhD Student & Head of Research University of Leipzig Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) Department of Gynecology
Laura is a PhD student at the Department of Gynecology at Leipzig University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Science in Early Childhood Research. Her PhD studies focus on the relevance of continuous core body temperature data for conception, pregnancy and women’s health research....
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Laura Naysmith

Laura Naysmith

Postdoctoral researcher King's College London Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Dr Laura Naysmith is a Research Associate at King’s College London, specialising in the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to explore neuropharmacological effects on brain function for novel drug development. In addition, Dr Naysmith investigates the intersection of cognition and mental health in loss of ovarian function at menopause...
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Laura Pritschet

Laura Pritschet

PhD Student University of California, Santa Barbara Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Laura Pritschet is a graduate student working with Dr. Emily Jacobs in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She leverages techniques from network neuroscience and neuroendocrinology to explore how sex steroid hormones impact human brain function across hormonal transition periods. The goal of her research...
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Laura Schummers

Laura Schummers

Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Dr. Laura Schummers, ScD, is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist. After completing her doctorate of science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Schummers joined the Contraception and Abortion Research Team in the Department of Family Practice at UBC as a postdoctoral fellow. She is now an...
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Laura St Clair

Laura St Clair

Postdoctoral Fellow Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Laura is a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the lab of Dr. Sabra Klein. She received her Ph.D. in molecular virology, where she focused on understanding how RNA viruses manipulate and alter host metabolism during infection to support viral replication. In Dr. Klein’s lab, Laura’s research focuses on...
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