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Leah Sarah Peer

Leah Sarah Peer

Medical Student Peer Medical Foundation Gender, Society, and Health
Leah Sarah Peer is a Medical Student, Global Health Fellow and a Graduate with a Specialization in Biology & a Minor in Human Rights. She is the Founder & Executive Director of the Peer Medical Foundation (PMF), an aspiring youth-led international not-for-profit organization advancing health equity, diversity & inclusion. She...
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Leonora Angeles

Leonora Angeles

Associate Professor University of British Columbia Gender, Society, and Health Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Leonora (Nora) C Angeles is Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is currently the Graduate Program Advisor of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also faculty...
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Leslie Liu

Leslie Liu

University of Toronto
Leslie is an undergraduate student specializing in Psychology at the University of Toronto, with a strong interest in women’s mental health and health equity. She was a Research Events & Communications Assistant with the Women’s Health Research Cluster, also working with womenmind and the laboratory of Dr. Liisa Galea. In her...
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Lexia Bao

Lexia Bao

Undergraduate Student University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Lexia Bao is a fourth year undergraduate student at UBC. She’s currently a member of the Viau Lab researching stress-induced sex differences and will begin her co-op term at the lab in September.
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Lianna Wat

Lianna Wat

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Lianna Wat’s research interests focus on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying how males and females regulate energy metabolism differently. Lianna completed her PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology in Dr. Elizabeth Rideout’s lab at the University of British Columbia. During her PhD, Lianna identified novel functions for metabolic genes...
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Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen

Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen

Associate Professor University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Dr. Tomfohr-Madsen’s research harnesses methodology from clinical and counselling psychology, health psychology and public health to understand intersectional risk and resilience factors that contribute to the development of psychological distress in parents and children. Her research aims to refine and disseminate psychological interventions to improve parent and child mental health,...
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Liisa Galea

Liisa Galea

Professor University of Toronto Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) Department of Psychiatry
Liisa Galea leads the Women’s Health Research Cluster and is the inaugural womenmind Treliving Family Chair in Women’s Mental Health, Senior Scientist at CAMH, the Principal Editor of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, the President of Organization for the Study of Sex Differences and co-Vice-President of Canadian Organisation for Sex and Gender Research. She serves...
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Lindsay Lew

Lindsay Lew

Postdoctoral Fellow University of Ottawa Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Lindsay is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Exercise Physiology and Cardiovascular Health Lab in the Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Lindsay earned her BSc in Kinesiology from Queen’s University. She then continued her graduate studies at Queen’s receiving her MSc and...
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Lindsay Oliver

Lindsay Oliver

Assistant Professor Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; University of Toronto Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Dr. Lindsay Oliver is a Staff Scientist in the Brain Health Imaging Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Oliver completed her MSc in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology at the University of Edinburgh,...
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Livia Cosentino

Livia Cosentino

Postdoctoral Fellow Istituto Superiore di Sanità Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
My long-term research goal involve the development of a comprehensive understanding of key brain mechanisms and how their alterations contribute to mental disorders. My academic training and research experience to date have provided me with an excellent background in behavioral neuroscience in both preclinical and clinical settings. As an undergraduate...
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Lori Brotto

Lori Brotto

Professor University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Lori A. Brotto, PhD, R Psych is the Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Dr. Brotto is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, with a Joint Appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. She holds a Canada Research Chair...
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