Faculty Members

Meet the Faculty Members of our Cluster

Leonora Angeles, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaInstitute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social JusticeSchool of Community and Regional Planning

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...

Cindy Barha , Assistant Professor, University of CalgarySchool of Kinesiology

Dr. Cindy Barha, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. Dr. Barha is a translational neuroscientist with training in behavioural neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary biology, epidemiology, and neuroendocrinology. Her research...

George Barreto, Assistant Professor, University of Limerick

I earned my PhD in Neuroscience (2009) from Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain) under the supervision of Dr. Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura, studying the effects of neurosteroids on reactive glia with aging. My post-doctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine (2009-2011), under the...

Hamideh Bayrampour, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaMidwifery Program, Department of Family Practice

Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour, PhD, MSc is an Assistant Professor in Midwifery Program, Department of Family Practice, an associate member in the School of Population and Public Health and a faculty member in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences program at UBC. Dr. Bayrampour's research interests...

Annaliese Beery, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Annaliese Beery studies the neurobiology of social behavior, impacts of experience on development, and the importance of using diverse organisms (both sexes and multiple species) in biological research. In the latter area, she has contributed to multiple efforts to promote inclusion of females...

Alexia Bloch, Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Anthropology

Since joining the Anthropology Department at UBC in 2000, my research has focused on two key areas: the transformations in daily life, social relationships, and well being brought about by the end of socialist states; and how the substantial influx of undocumented migrants and refugees into...

Katrina Bouchard, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Katrina Bouchard is an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from Queen’s University and is a registered psychologist. The overarching goal of Dr. Bouchard’s research program is to enhance the assessment and...

Jade Boyd, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaMedicine

Jade Boyd, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use. She draws upon qualitative, ethnographic and community-based methods to examine social, structural and...

Helen Brown, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Brown's program of research brings critical perspectives to studies aimed at improving health and social equity for rural and remote Indigenous communities. Using community-based and participatory methods she has worked with First Nations communities across Western Canada on projects that...

Hilary Brown, Assistant Professor, University of TorontoDepartment of Health and Society

Hilary Brown, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Health & Society (Scarborough Campus) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is cross-appointed to the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and is an Adjunct Scientist...

Mary Bryson, Professor, University of British Columbia

Dr. Mary K. Bryson is Senior Associate Dean, Administration, Faculty Affairs & Innovation and Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Bryson’s program of research is...

Thea Cacchioni, Associate Professor, University of Victoria

Joined UVic Gender Studies in 2011

My research examines the medicalization of sex, gender, and sexuality, broadly, as well as through specific diagnoses such as Female Sexual Dysfunction and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. I am interested in the ways in which doctors, psychiatrists, and more...

Kristin Campbell, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Kristin Campbell, BSc, PT, PhD is a licensed physical therapist and a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She also an Affiliated Scientist in the Cancer Control Program at the BC Cancer Research Institute.

Her...

Prapti Chauhan, Professor,

Prapti Chauhan is a professor of Genetics in Bangalore. She has contributed to several online research papers. However, she passionately develops contents on pregnancy, childbirth, childcare and stem cell banking and umbilical cord lining and more.

Frances Chen, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Frances Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores the intersection of social psychology and health psychology, linking our social lives (and, increasingly, our online social lives), mental health and physical...

Elena Choleris, Professor, University of Guelph

We are particularly interested in various regulatory and modulatory aspects of social behavior. Among many, we are investigating the neurobiological bases of (1) social learning whereby an individual acquires information from another individual, (2) social recognition, individual identification...

Brian Christie, Professor, University of Victoria

Brian R. Christie is a Professor in the Island Medical Program where he has a primary appointment with The Division of Medical Sciences at the University of Victoria and an Affiliate Professor position with the University of British Columbia.

He obtained an MSc from the University of...

Anita Coté, Assistant Professor, Trinity Western University

Dr. Coté is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Kinetics at Trinity Western University, and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine (Pediatrics) at the University of British Columbia. As Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Adaptation to Exercise, Dr. Coté’s...

Geoffrey Cundiff, Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Dr. Geoffrey Cundiff is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are broad-based including epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders, surgical education, and prevention of maternal obstetrical trauma, and patient...

Anita Datta, Clinical Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Pediatrics

Dr. Anita Datta is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. She is the Program Director of the Epilepsy Fellowship training program and Director for medical students for Neurology at BC Children’s Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Royal...

Samantha Dawson, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Samantha Dawson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia and a Michael Smith for Health Research Scholar. She is the Director of the Sexuality and Well-being Lab (SWELL Lab), an affiliate member of the Women’s Health Research...

Rubee Dev , Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

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 from...

Paula Duarte-Guterman, Assistant Professor, Brock UniversityDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Paula Duarte-Guterman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brock University and the Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Neuroscience. She completed her PhD at the University of Ottawa investigating the interactions of thyroid and sex steroid hormones during frog...

Annie Duchesne , Assistant Professor, UNBCDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Annie Duchesne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Duchesne obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from McGill University in 2014, where she studied the stress processes across the menstrual cycle in Dr. Jens Pruessner’s...

Sandra Dumanski, Assistant Professor, University of CalgaryMedicine

Dr Dumanski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She received a Medical Degree from the University of Saskatchewan, followed by clinical residencies in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, a Master of Medical Science from the University of Calgary,...

Guy Dumont, Professor, University of British ColumbiaElectrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science

Guy A. Dumont received his Diplôme d'Ingénieur from ENSAM, Paris, France in 1973 and his PhD in electrical engineering from McGill University in 1977. In 1973-74, and again from 1977 to 1979, he worked for Tioxide France. From 1979 to 1989, he worked with Paprican, the Pulp and Paper Research...

Teal Eich, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Teal S. Eich, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research explores age-related changes to executive function. She is particularly interested in the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive inhibition, and understanding how morphological changes to neuroanatomy affect the ability to...

Reda Elbadawy, Professor, Banha University

Reda Mohamed Elbadawy, MD is a Professor of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases at Banha University, Egypt.

Ruth Elwood Martin, Clinical Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Population and Public Health

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...

C. Neill Epperson, Professor, University of ColoradoMedicine

C. Neill Epperson, MD, is the Robert Freedman Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz Medical Campus (CU-AMC) where she is also the Executive Director of the Helen E. and Arthur Johnson Depression Center. Before being...

Nichole Fairbrother, Clinical Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Family Practice

Dr. Nichole Fairbrother is a registered psychologist and Clinical Associate Professor with the UBC Department of Family Practice and the Island Medical Program. She a perinatal mental health investigator and head of the UBC Perinatal Anxiety Disorder Research Lab (PARLab). Dr. Fairbrother’s...

Thalia Field, Associate Professor, Vancouver Coastal Health Research InstituteMedicine

Dr. Thalia Field is a stroke neurologist and clinician-researcher with a focus on clinical trials. She has a particular interest in process improvement in clinical trials, which includes optimizing strategies for participant recruitment and retention, investigating strategies for efficient use...

Sophia Frangou, Professor, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

Dr. Frangou, MD, PhD, FRCPsych serves as Research Chair in Brain Health at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA. She received her Master’s Degree in Neuroscience and her PhD from the University of London, UK...

Jacqueline Gahagan, Associate Vice-President Research, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityMedicine

Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University

Medical sociologist (PhD) and credentialed evaluator (CE) conducting sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) of health promotion and public health interventions aimed at understanding their impacts on equity-deserving...

Paula Gordon, Clinical Professor, University of British ColumbiaMedicine
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Paula Gordon is Clinical Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include breast ultrasound for diagnosis and for supplemental screening for women with dense breasts. She is best known academically for her paper in Cancer in 1995...

Gail Hammond, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaFaculty of Land and Food Systems

Grounded in my professional practice as a nutrition educator in the community and in academia, my research activities have focused on:

Gaining understanding of how decision-making processes influence women’s food choices and examining use of this information to improve food choice

Sherri Hayden, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaFaculty of Medicine

Dr. Hayden is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor with the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She has served as a clinical neuropsychologist at UBC Hospital in the Clinic for Alzheimer’s Disease & Related...

Saima Hirani, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Saima Hirani is an Assistant Professor at the UBC, School of Nursing. Her research experience includes working with multidisciplinary teams to promote mental health among socioeconomically disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in Canada and Pakistan. Her research focuses on what factors...

Shela Hirani, Associate Professor, University of ReginaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Shela Hirani is an Associate Professor at the University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing, Canada. She is a neonatal and child health nursing professional, academician, researcher, and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. She is actively involved in work surrounding the...

Travis Hodges, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia

Dr. Travis Hodges is a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology of Dr. Liisa Galea at the University of British Columbia. His research investigates the sex-specific and age-specific biological mechanisms involved in negative cognitive bias, a treatment-resistant...

Susan Holtzman, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Susan Holtzman is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Lead Investigator of the Health Psychology Lab at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). She is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia. Dr. Holtzman received her PhD in Clinical...

Holly Hunsberger, Assistant Professor, Rosalind Franklin University

Holly is an Assistant Professor at Rosalind Franklin University/ The Chicago Medical School. She received her PhD from West Virginia University in Dr. Miranda Reed’s laboratory. There, she studied glutamate’s role in Alzheimer’s disease pathology using novel microelectrode array technology. She...

Dannia Islas, Researcher, Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz National Institute of Psychiatry

My research interests are mainly how sexual hormones could impact our behavior and lead to some pathologies. I studied my PhD in Mexico City and my research was to elucidate the HPA axis activity in response to hormonal absence or an abrupt drop of them, such as progesterone withdrawal (PW). PW...

Patricia Janssen, Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Population and Public Health

Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health, Perinatal Epidemiologist and Senior Scientist at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Trained in nursing and midwifery, Dr. Janssen leads Optimal Birth BC, a consortium of clinician-scientists and public health...

Mahsa Jessri, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaFood, Nutrition and Health

Dr. Mahsa Jessri is Faculty at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Assistant Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health in the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and an Associate Member in the Division of Health Services and Policy at the UBC School of Population and Public...

Angela Kaida, Professor / Canada Research Chair Tier II in Global Perspectives in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health, Simon Fraser University

Dr. Angela Kaida is an Associate Professor and global health epidemiologist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives on HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health. Dr. Kaida has been awarded ...

Shirin Kalyan , Adjunct Professor, University of British ColumbiaMedicine

Dr. Shirin Kalyan - Adjunct Professor (Medicine, University of British Columbia), Lead Scientist (Clinical Research Development Laboratory, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute), Chief Scientific Officer (Rare Disease Foundation), and Director of Scientific Innovation (Qu Biologics)

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Kejal Kantarci, Professor, Mayo Clinic

Dr. Kejal Kantarci is a Consultant and Professor of Radiology at the Division of Neuroradiology Mayo Clinic Rochester. She is Katherine B. Andersen Endowed Professor in Women’s Health. She is also the Director of the Women’s Health Research Center, Associate Director of the Mayo Clinic...

Arminée Kazanjian, Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Population and Public Health

Arminée Kazanjian, DrSocis Professor, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Kazanjian is a recognized Health Services & Policy Researcher whose work incorporates social epidemiology and health technology assessment, social and cultural dimensions of care...

Elizabeth Keys , Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Elizabeth Keys, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UBC Okanagan. She is a registered nurse with a clinical background in community and public health nursing focused on promoting maternal, child, and family wellbeing in the community. Dr. Keys obtained her PhD and BN...

Donna Korol, Associate Professor, Syracuse University

My primary interests involve the neural mechanisms of learning and memory with a focus on changes across the lifespan and under different fitness, hormonal, and disease states.

Andrea Krüsi, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Population and Public Health

Andrea Krüsi, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a Research Scientist with the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity. Dr. Krüsi’s work focuses broadly on the criminalization of sexuality, with a particular focus on how...

Hagar Labouta, Assistant Professor, University of ManitobaFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Hagar I. Labouta is an Assistant Professor at the College of Pharmacy, with extensive research experience in nanomedicine, drug delivery, and biomedical engineering. She got her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical nanotechnology from Saarland University (Germany). She completed several Postdoctoral...

Yvonne Lamers, Associate Professor / Canada Research Chair in Human Nutrition and Vitamin Metabolism / Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of British ColumbiaFaculty of Land and Food Systems

The overarching theme of my research is nutrient adequacy for optimal health and development. My enthusiasm for human nutrition research draws from my interest in the physiology and biochemistry of nutrition-related diseases and in targeted and population-based strategies of chronic disease...

Joelle LeMoult, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Joelle LeMoult is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She is the Director of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Laboratory, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for...

Benedetta Leuner, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

Dr. Leuner’s research investigates experience and hormone driven changes in the brain and behavior with a specific focus on brain regions regulating emotional and cognitive function and questions of relevance to the female brain and women’s brain health.

Maya Libben , Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Maya Libben is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the lead investigator of the PLAN Lab at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. She is also a registered clinical psychologist (#2167) with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia. Dr. Libben completed...

Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Associate Professor / Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Physical Therapy
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD, PT, is a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, and Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, Mobility, and Cognitive Health. She is the Research Director of the Vancouver General Hospital Falls Prevention Clinic (...

Martha Mackay, Clinical Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Mackay spent 40 years at St. Paul’s Hospital, 25 of which as the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Cardiology at the Heart Centre. For the last 12 years she has functioned as a clinician-scientist, combining the roles of CNS and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British...

Anna MacKinnon, Assistant Professor, Université de MontréalChu Sainte-Justine Research Center

Dr. Anna MacKinnon's research focuses on social determinants of child health and development, risk and resilience for perinatal mental health, as well as intervention programs for psychological distress and parenting. She recently completed her postdoctoral work at the Alberta...

Nisha Malhotra, Professor, University of British Columbia

Dr. Malhotra's work is that of an inter-disciplinary social scientist with a strong interest in questions related to Development, Gender and Global Health. Her recent work focuses on gender based violence and socio-economic determinants of health related behaviour (mostly in South Asia). Her...

Tina Montreuil, Associate Professor, McGill University

Dr. Tina C. Montreuil is an Associate Professor in the department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and an Associate Member of the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at McGill University, as well as the director of Childhood Anxiety and Regulation of Emotions Laboratory C.A.R.E....

Sarah Munro, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Sarah Munro is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia and the Knowledge Translation Program Head with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. Using qualitative and knowledge translation...

Wendy Norman, Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Family Practice
Faculty of Medicine

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 (...

Tim Oberlander, Physician / Scientist / Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Tim Oberlander is a physician-scientist whose work bridges developmental neurosciences and community child health. He is a developmental pediatrician and works as the medical lead for the Complex Pain Service at BC Children’s Hospital.

Since 1996, Dr Oberlander has led a...

Gina Ogilvie, Professor / Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV related diseases and prevention, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Population and Public Health

Dr. Ogilvie is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV related diseases and prevention. She is also Senior Public Health Scientist at BC Centre for Disease Control and Senior Research Advisor at the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Dr. Ogilvie is principal investigator on...

Emmanuela Ojukwu, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Emmanuela Ojukwu is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing. Her research focuses particularly on psychosocial and behavioral aspects of health promotion for marginalized populations, particularly African, Caribbean and Black women and youths. Her...

Maria Ospina, Associate Professor, Queen's University

Dr. Ospina is an associate professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, a clinical epidemiologist, and population health researcher and former Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Life Course, Social Environments, and Health. Her research program uses a life course...

Daniela Palombo, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Daniela Palombo, Assistant Professor in the cognitive area. I investigate cognitive and neural factors associated with how we form and retain autobiographical memories and how this may differ across individuals. I also examine how autobiographical memory influences non-mnemonic...

Ann Pederson, Adjunct Professor, Women's Health Research InstituteSchool of Population and Public Health

I am interested in the experience of health and illness, particularly living with chronic conditions. I am deeply committed to feminist, gender-transformative health promotion and researching interventions that can simultaneously address harmful gender norms while improving health. Finally, I am...

Melissa Perreault, Associate Professor, University of Guelph

Dr. Perreault is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Guelph and is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada. She acquired her PhD in behavioural neuroscience from McMaster University followed...

Alesia Prakapenka, Assistant Professor, Midwestern University

Dr. Alesia Prakapenka is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Sciences (IL) at Midwestern University. Her research program investigates women’s health across the lifespan using translationally relevant rodent models, with a particular focus on how physiological changes contribute to age-related...

Sarah Purcell, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

The ultimate goal of my research is to identify evidence-based nutrition strategies to mitigate the burden of obesity and chronic disease. My research builds upon key concepts of nutrition, energy balance regulation, and body composition to:

1) Characterize energy...

Eli Puterman, Associate Professor / Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Physical Activity and Health, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Kinesiology

Dr. Eli Puterman is an associate professor and the Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Health (2015-2025), and was a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar (2016-2021). He is the Director of the Fitness, Aging, and Stress Lab where he and his team develop,...

Charlis Raineki, Assistant Professor, Brock University

My laboratory’s work examines how our unique experiences across development have profound impacts on our brains and behavior. Our primary research interest is to uncover biological mechanisms underlying neurobehavioral deficits induced by pre- and/or early postnatal adverse experiences, with a...

M. Natasha Rajah, Professor, McGill University

Dr. M. Natasha Rajah received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, and did her post-doctoral training at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley. She joined the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of...

Manon Ranger, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Manon Ranger conducts translational research, integrating preclinical investigations with clinical studies in preterm neonates undergoing intensive neonatal care to uncover mechanisms of vulnerability to early adversity (e.g. stress/pain, inflammation, treatments) in relation to brain...

Elizabeth Rideout, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Faculty of Medicine

I completed my BSc (Hons) at the University of Toronto at Mississauga in Forensic Science and Biology. I first became interested in research working with fruit flies in the laboratory of Prof. Marla Sokolowski. I then moved on to the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Goodwin at the University of...

Julie Robillard, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaFaculty of Medicine

Dr. Julie Robillard is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia, Scientist in Patient Experience at BC Children's and Women's Hospital and Director of the Neuroscience, Engagement and Smart Tech (NEST) lab. She is Chair of the Ethical, Legal, Social Impacts...

Troy A. Roepke, Associate Professor, Rutgers University

Troy's interests focus on the interactions of hormones (estrogens), diets, aging, and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDC) on neurophysiological functions controlled by the hypothalamus and other brain circuits, which control energy balance, reproduction, stress, and homeostasis.

Jessica Rosin, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Dr. Jessica Rosin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Her research program focuses on understanding how distinct populations of phagocytic immune cells (e.g., microglia, macrophages, etc.) signal to nearby...

Laura Schummers, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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...

Judy Segal, Professor, Department of English Language & Literatures

I teach courses in history and theory of rhetoric, and in rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine; I am a faculty member in the Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program. My research interests are both interdisciplinary, under the headings of “Science and Technology Studies” and “...

Kate Shannon, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaFaculty of Medicine

Dr. Shannon’s research training includes a Masters degree in Global Public Health which focused on maternal and reproductive health in rural Bangladesh, followed by a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology at UBC which explored the social and structural factors shaping HIV acquisition risk for...

Jeannie Shoveller, Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Population and Public Health

Dr. Jeannie Shoveller, PhD, is a Professor at UBC’s School of Population & Public Health and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is also the Associate Director and Director of Research at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity and the Director of Research at the...

Deborah Sloboda, Professor, McMaster University

Dr. Sloboda is a Professor and the Associate Chair of Research in the Dept of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University. She holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Perinatal Programming. Dr. Sloboda's laboratory investigates early life impacts on maternal, fetal and placental...

Kendall Soucie , Assistant Professor, University of Windsor

Dr. Soucie earned her B.A. at the University of Windsor, her M.A. at Wilfrid Laurier University, and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Wayne State University. She recently joined the University of Windsor as a tenure-track faculty member in the Child Clinical area in 2019. Her most...

Rebecca Todd, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Psychology

Dr. Rebecca Todd is an Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Psychology and a CIHR New Investigator and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Fellow. She received a PhD in Developmental Science and Neuroscience from University of Toronto, and post-doctoral training in...

Helen Tremlett, Professor, University of British ColumbiaFaculty of Medicine

Professor Helen Tremlett, PhD is the Canada Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis and Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Neurology and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Dr Tremlett’s...

Natalie Tronson, Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Natalie Tronson is a behavioral and molecular neuroscientist interested in sex differences in learning and memory, and psychiatric/neurological disorders associated with alteration of memory, including post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer's Disease and depression. Dr. Tronson's work uses...

Paul van Donkelaar, Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Health and Exercise Sciences

Dr. Paul van Donkelaar is a professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBCO. His research team examines the mechanisms and effects of traumatic brain injury on cerebrovascular, sensorimotor, and neurocognitive function. They use these approaches to better understand head impacts...

Marianne Vidler , Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Marianne Vidler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at UBC. Her research focus is on pregnancy complications and maternal mortality in resources constrained settings. Marianne received a Masters in Public Health at Simon Fraser University in 2011, where her...

Joanne Weinberg, Professor Emerita and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Cellular & Physiological Sciences

Dr. Joanne Weinberg is a Professor Emerita and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Brain Research Center, and an Associate Member of the Department of Psychology and the...

Karline Wilson-Mitchell, Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University

Karline Wilson-Mitchell is passionate about reproductive justice that informs midwifery education, practice and global partnerships. Since 1992, Karline’s clinical work grew from the U.S. (urban and rural) to Canada (Ontario, remote Quebec) and then to midwifery education and leadership building...

Whitney Wood, Professor, Vancouver Island University

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...

Lydia Wytenbroek, Assistant Professor, University of British ColumbiaSchool of Nursing

Dr. Wytenbroek is a social historian of twentieth-century health care, with a particular interest in understanding and interpreting the historical forces that have shaped the nursing profession and practice. She draws on historical research, sociology, feminist studies and social justice to...

Alexandra Ycaza Herrera, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Dr. Ycaza Herrera is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Her research focuses on the ability of estradiol to modulate the cortisol response in women. To investigate how ovarian hormone levels modulate the adrenal cortisol...

Paul Yong, Associate Professor, University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Paul Yong, MD, PhD, FRCSC is a gynecologist with fellowship training in minimally invasive surgery, and Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Dr. Yong is Research Director at the BC Women's Centre for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis...

Burcu Zeydan , Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic

Dr. Burcu Zeydan is an assistant professor of radiology and neurology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Zeydan received her M.D. degree and completed her residency training in the Department of Neurology at Istanbul University. Her research focuses on imaging and epidemiology of...

Kristen Zuloaga , Assistant Professor, Albany Medical College

Dr. Zuloaga's research focuses on how risk factors, such as prediabetes, obesity, cerebrovascular disease and menopause may alter pathology of dementia differently in each sex during aging.

With 20 years of experience in the sex differences field, Dr. Zuloaga currently serves as council...

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