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2020-2021 Women's Health Seminar Series
The series is open to all, interested faculty, clinicians, staff, and trainees.
All the seminars will be held Online on Mondays from 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST). Unless otherwise indicated. Meeting details will be sent out to registrants before the event. When registering for a seminar, please ensure to use the same name as the one you use on Zoom. For security reasons, we will only admit indivdiuals that are on our registration list into the meeting.
Note: Attendees who attend at least 90% of our seminars will be awarded a Certificate of completion at the end of the series. Attendance is taken during the event, so please log into the meeting with your full name.
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Seminar Topics & Speakers |
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Mon, Sept 14, 2020 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT |
Sex Differences in Brain Aging and Memory-Related Brain FunctionPresenter: Dr. Natasha Rajah-Moir, Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, McGill University |
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Mon, Sept 28, 2020 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT |
Perimenopause—Women’s Misunderstood, Confusing and Long Midlife TransitionPresenter: Dr. Jerilynn Prior, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UBC |
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Mon, Oct 19, 2020 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT |
Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke and the Impact of MenopausePresenter: Dr. Farida Sohrabji, Regents Professor & Interim Department Head, Texas A&M University |
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Mon, Nov 16, 2020 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Stress, Reproduction and BeyondPresenter: Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU |
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Mon, Nov 30, 2020 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Issues for Adolescent Girls and Young Women with EpilepsyPresenter: Dr. Anita Datta, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC |
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Mon, Dec 7, 2020 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence and Gender: Walking in Their FootstepsPresenter: Dr. Nisha Malhotra, Faculty member, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC |
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Winter Break |
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Mon, Jan 11, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Beyond "Women's Cancers"?: How and Why Gender Matters in the Design of Medically and Culturally Competent Cancer Research & Systems of CarePresenter: Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Faculty of Education, UBC |
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Mon, Jan 25, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Partnering with Policy Makers to Make an Impact in Women's Health ResearchPresenter: Dr. Sarah Munro, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UBC and a Scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences, UBC |
Coming soon |
Mon, Feb 8, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Estrogenic Regulation of Memory Consolidation: Neural Mechanisms and Implications for Women’s HealthPresenter: Dr. Karyn Frick, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee |
Coming soon |
Mon, Feb 22, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Sex, Gender, Intersectionality and Implementation SciencePresenter: Dr. Ian Graham, Professor, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine University of Ottawa |
Coming soon |
Mon, Mar 8, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PST |
Hormones, Brain and Social CognitionPresenter: Dr. Elena Choleris, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph |
Coming soon |
Mon, Mar 22, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT |
From Bump to Baby: Women's Sexual Health During the Transition to ParenthoodPresenter: Dr. Samantha Dawson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia |
Coming soon |
Tues, Apr 6, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT |
A Socio-Ecological Approach to the Study of Hormones and Behaviour: Impacts for Women’s HealthPresenter: Dr. Annie Duchesne, Ph.D. University of Northern British Columbia, Department of Psychology |
Coming soon |
Mon, Apr 12, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT |
Love, Life, and Family: Safer conception care for HIV sero-different couples who desire children in UgandaPresenter: Dr. Angela Kaida, Associate Professor, Health Sciences, SFU |
Coming soon |
Mon, Apr 19, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT |
Microglia and Motherhood: Linking the Neuroimmune System to Plasticity of the Maternal Brain and Postpartum DepressionPresenter: Dr. Benedetta Leuner, Associate Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, The Ohio State University |
Coming soon |