Dr. Jamie Benham MD, PhD


Assistant Professor

Faculty of Medicine

University of Calgary

Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)

Dr. Benham is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences. Her research focuses on the interplay between endocrine disease, physical activity and cardiometabolic health. 

Dr. Benham completed degrees in Human Kinetics and Medicine at the University of British Columbia, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine, the Clinician Investigator Program, and Endocrinology at the University of Calgary. In 2021, she completed a PhD in Epidemiology. Her PhD thesis work focused on the impact of non-pharmacologic therapies including exercise training on reproductive and cardiometabolic health in individuals with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.


Area of Research Expertise
Health, women's; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Risk factors, Cardiometabolic; Reproduction

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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