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WHRN Researcher Profiles and Networking DirectoryThe WHRN is proud to profile the work of our members in the area of girls' and women's health and gender and health. Click on the links for contact information and faculty/personal websites. We have also launched our searchable online member database, in collaboration with the Women's Health Research Institute. Click here to enter the database.To have your new and ongoing research profiled, contact us.
Featured profile: Dr. Mary H.H. Ensom The WHRN congratulates Dr. Mary H. H. Ensom, one of five winners of the 2007 UBC Killam Research Prize in Science. This Prize recognizes fulltime faculty members of the University of British Columbia for their distinguished research and scholarly contributions of international significance. Dr. Mary H.H. Ensom (formerly Chandler) is Professor and Director, Doctor of Pharmacy Program, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Distinguished University Scholar, UBC. She is also a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia and Senior Associate Clinical Scientist, Child & Family Institute. As an integrator who bridges the gap between the basic and clinical sciences, the goal of her research program is to address clinical pharmacokinetic/dynamic/genetic problems and make a difference in the health and well-being of patients. Research Interests
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Vindya Attanayake has completed an undergraduate degree in Sociology and is currently enrolled as a graduate student in the Population and Public Health (PPH) program in Facultyof Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. Research Interests
Selected Current Research Projects Health issues of Sri Lankan Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada Nelly Auersperg, M.D., Ph.D is an.Honorary Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Professor Emerita, Department of Anatomy, University of British Columbia. Her research interests have centered on the cell biology of cancers of the female reproductive tract. Early contributions dealt with cytogenetics, pathology and biology of cervical cancer, including its causation by HPV. More recently, she studied the origin and early stages of ovarian cancer, and was the first to characterize the cells of origin of these neoplasms. She is currently defining new methods for the early detection of ovarian cancers. Research Interests
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Dr. Lynda Balneaves is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Canadian Cancer Society Research Scientist award (funded by the Prostate Cancer Research Initiative) and her research program focuses primarily on treatment decision making by people living with cancer, with a special interest in complementary and alternative medicine. Lynda has been active in cancer nursing research for the past 13 years. Research Interests
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Dr. Kirsten Bell is a New Investigator in the Sociobehavioural Research Centre at the British Columbia Cancer Agency (funded by the CIHR Cross-Cultural Palliative New Emerging Team Grant), and a Research Associate in the Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia. She has training in cultural and medical anthropology and has held academic positions in anthropology departments at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and the University of Northern Colorado in the USA. Her key interests lie in the sociocultural analysis of biomedicine and public health and the embodied experience of health and illness. Her most recent research is in the field of psychosocial oncology and focuses on the ways in which people’s experience of cancer is affected by gender, class, cultural background, cancer site and cancer stage. She is particularly interested in the experiences of people who have completed primary cancer treatment and are now in the ‘survivorship’ phase. Kirsten is also conducting research on the discourses, policies and practices surrounding public health movements connected with tobacco, obesity and alcohol – all deemed to be key ‘risk’ factors for cancer. Her research focuses on the cultural and moral assumptions underwriting these movements and the problematic ways in the concept of 'health' is used to legitimise social, moral and political agendas which serve to exclude and stigmatise particular practices (and groups) as 'dangerous' and 'threatening' to health and the social order. Research Interests
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Dr. Vicki Bernstein is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Research Interests
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Dr. Joan L. Bottorff, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Development at UBC Okanagan, is a nurse scientist working in the area of health promotion and cancer control.She is a Co-Director of NEXUS, an interdisciplinary MSFHR funded research unit focused on the study of the social context of health behaviour. Current projects include research related to tobacco reduction during pregnancy and postpartum, developing gender-sensitive approaches to supporting tobacco reduction, cancer screening,risk communication, and health promotion among diverse groups (including South Asian, Asian, and Indigenous populations).
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The WHRN congratulates Dr. Joan Bottorff and the rest of the NEXUS research team. The Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance awarded the team a Developmental and Exploratory (DEX) Grant for the project Messages for young women about tobacco exposure and breast cancer: Phase 1. Dr. Annette J. Browne is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at UBC. Her research program focuses on the complex social factors shaping health and health care inequities for Aboriginal peoples, and people from other groups whose lives are affected by social inequity. Current studies include projects exploring the social and political context of clinical encounters involving First Nations women; access to primary care for Aboriginal peoples in an urban centre; and the relevance of the concept of “cultural safety” (from New Zealand) to health services in Canada. Research Interests
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Leslie Bryant MacLean (MSc, Human Kinetics, UBC) is a Research Facilitator with Interior Health’s (IH) Research Department. Her work focuses on supporting evidence-informed decision-making and knowledge translation activities. Leslie has over 7 years of health research experience in a variety of topic areas. She has been involved in several provincially- and nationally-funded research projects, including a CIHR Urban Aboriginal Health Planning grant and is the UBCO liaison for IH. Other areas of research interest include physical activity, bone health, healthy aging, chronic disease management and prevention, women and children, and aboriginal health. Selected Current Research Projects
Dr. Margaret Dorazio-Migliore is is a medical anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar who recently completed a 2-year CIHR postdoctoral program in Ethics of Health Research & Policy at The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC. Research Interests
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Dr. Mary H.H. Ensom (formerly Chandler) is Professor and Director, Doctor of Pharmacy Program, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Distinguished University Scholar, UBC. She is also a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia and Senior Associate Clinical Scientist, Child & Family Institute. As an integrator who bridges the gap between the basic and clinical sciences, the goal of her research program is to address clinical pharmacokinetic/dynamic/genetic problems and make a difference in the health and well-being of patients. Research Interests
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Laura Hurd Clarke is a sociologist in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia. She conducts qualitative research which is focussed on body image, aging, beauty work interventions, and ageism. Additionally, she is part of a team of researchers examining the impact of multiple chronic conditions on engagement in physical activity. Research Interests
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Kim Jensen has been involved with program development, coordination, delivery, nd adult education for the past 15 years. Kim is a former Registered Nurse who has worked in most areas of acute care nursing including rehabilitation, medical, surgical, psychiatry, and critical care. Kim has worked as a program coordinator and volunteer coordinator for the Kamloops Hospice Association and performed health assessments for the First Nations Bands in the Merritt area while working for a local Vocational Health Sciences School. She has worked and volunteeredwith several health, education, and community development related not-for-profit organizations at a local, provincial, and national level, in a variety of capacities, since the early 1990’s. Research Interests Cancer Prevention (5 primary risk factors) and cross-cultural education re: cancer prevention
Dr. Shirin Kalyan, postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research at UBC, graduated with a major in Immunology and Microbiology and a Minor in Psychology. She obtained her doctorate with the Department of Experimental Medicine for which she had been awarded senior scholarships from both the Canadian Institute of Health Research as well as the ichael Smith Foundation. Shirin's main interest is in studying the role of gender in health and disease progression - with a special interest in the context of stress and the immune system. Research Interests
Selected Current Research ProjectsClinical study in premenopausal women investigating physiological symptoms differentiating ovulatory from anovulatory cycles
Dr. Michael Klein is Emeritus Professor of Family Practice and Pediatrics at UBC and Senior Scientist Emeritus at the BC Child and Family Research Institute. As a researcher, he is perhaps best known as PI for the only North American RCT of pisiotomy, a study credited with contributing to a dramatic reduction in episiotomy use, with a resultant further dramatic reduction in rectal trauma. His recent research has measured the impact of maternity provider practice patterns and their consequences as well as original work on pelvic floor functioning in women who have vaginal versus cesarean births. He is PI on a CIHR funded Canada-wide four year study of attitudes and beliefs of all maternity care providers and the women they serve and a BC Study of the role of maternity care in community sustainability. Child & Family Research Institute biography Research Interests
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Corinne Koehn conducts research and teaches in the Counselling stream in Education at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is a registered psychologist in BC and has over 20 years of counselling experience. She has conducted qualitative and quantitative research in the areas of addictions, violence against women, counsellor education, and hope inspiration. Research Interests
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Helen Loshny, Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant in the Department of Women's Studies at SFU, is researching women’s reproductive health, focusing on Premenstrual Syndrome for her Masters and shortly to be investigating the role of socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental factors in Hormonal Contraceptive prescribing practices and use in British Columbia. Helen is also a research associate at the Health Research and Methods Facility (HeRMeT), directed by Professor Cindy Patton, where she project manages a CIHR funded grant aimed at analyzing and reducing health disparities in marginalized populations. Research Interests
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Dr. Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU, is a social epidemiologist with longstanding research interests in gender, race, and class inequalities in health. She conducts epidemiologic observational research as well as participatory, community-level interventions. For the past decade, she has employed mixed-method approaches to improve understanding of the social causes and consequences of violence against women from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic groups. Research Interests
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Ruth Elwood Martin is a family physician with myriad research interests including primary care research, women’s health, narrative medicine, and participatory research. She is involved in projects using a variety of research methods such as: randomised controlled evaluation of HPV testing in cervical cancer screening; thematic analysis of family physician narratives; and, action research using participatory methods with women in prison. Ruth’s work also includes facilitating research skill development within the discipline of family medicine. Webpages: http://www.accwwomenresearch.org http://www.familymed.ubc.ca/dph http://www.familypractice.ubc.ca/indexb.html Research Interests
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Dr. Shaila Misri is a reproductive psychiatrist with longstanding research interests in psychopharmacology related to pregnancy and the postpartum with special interest in secretion of medications in the breast milk and developmental effects on the baby. Additionally, her research interests include naturalistic studies related to the course of mood and anxiety disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum. In the past 15 years she has developed interests in understanding and improving how maternal mental health and exposure to medications affect the growing fetus/child. Research Interests
Dr. Steven Noble's research focuses upon mental health and psychiatric survivorship. Centrally, models and theories of "insanity" or "madness" and determinants of mental health involving women and sexual minorities are investigated. Psychiatric power relationships and social constructions of mental normalization are engaged with interactions involving arts-based inquiry. Research Interests
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Sarah Paynter MA, is a research assistant at the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University. Her work covers a range of feminist, health, political and economic geographies. With a focus on gender and women in India, Sarah’s SSHRC funded master’s thesis examined sexual and reproductive health within the context of international development regimes. Research Interests
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Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior is a Professor of Endocrinology and Scientific Director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR) at the University of British Columbia. Her clinical and research expertise is in reproductive endocrinology and she is Centre Director for population-based Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMOS). She is also affiliated with both the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at UBC and the Centre for Clinical Evaluation and Epidemiology at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Research Interests
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The WHRN congratulates Dr. Prior on her recent appointment as the president of the The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR) which held its biennial meeting at UBC in June 2007. She is known as the founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR) which also just celebrated its 5th anniversary. SMCR has been developing position statements on extended combined hormonal contraception (www.menstruationresearch.com) and is developing one on menopausal women and hormonal therapy.
Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Food, Nutrition and Health at UBC with a broad interest in the sociology of food and nutrition. For her doctoral study, Svetlana is using perspectives from social theory to explore the healthy eating interpretations of three different ethnocultural groups in Canada, seeking to understand the ways that people engage with various food and health discourses as well as broader societal norms about modes of being. Research Interests
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Dr. Amy Salmon is the Research Programs Coordinator for Gender, Women, and Addictions with the BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at UVic. She is a sociologist and specialist in health education, critical ethnography, and community-based, participatory research methodologies. Her research examines the social, cultural, economic, political, and historical factors that inform health literacy, engagement with health and social services, and social determinants of health for women with addictions. Much of this research has been conducted in partnership with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women who use drugs in Vancouver’ Downtown Eastside, and with the community-based organizations that serve them. She is also the Co-Leader of a Canada Northwest FASD Research Network Action Team on FASD Prevention from a Women’s Health Determinants Perspective. Research Interests
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Kate Shannon is coordinator/ co-investigator of a participatory-action and interventional research project with substance-using women in survival sex work, in partnership with a sex work support agency in Vancouver. Through community-based research and capacity building with survival sex workers, the project aims to examine the health related harms and impact of current HIV prevention and harm reduction strategies among survival sex workers. Research Interests
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Leah Shumka is a recent graduate from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. Her Master’s research focused on how women, who are socially stigmatized and economically marginalized by their involvement in one of three “front line” service occupations (sex trade, hairdressing, and restaurant work), use their bodies to communicate suffering. Leah’s proposed doctoral research at the University of Toronto builds on her previous work by aiming to better how people working in the sex industry (PWSI) resist stigma and embody resiliency. She is the UVic node coordinator for the WHRN and research coordinator with the Healthy Youth Survey. Research Interests
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Kelli Sullivan is an Interdisciplinary PhD student with research interests in parent-adolescent relationships, girls and addictions, and adolescent psychosocial development. She holds a SSHRC doctoral fellowship (2007-2011) and is a trainee with IMPART and the CIHR Strategic Training Program in Tobacco Research. Research Interests
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Deborah Thien is a feminist geographer with a longstanding interest in uneven geographies of health and well-being, particularly women’s emotional and mental health; on health and well-being in rural, remote, and northern communities; on the sociology and geography of emotion; and on feminist theory as a framework for empirically grounded studies of gender and geography. Research Interests
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Elizabeth Towers is a professional educator with a keen interest in science, and node coordinator with the Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research. She has taught introductory biology at postsecondary (first year) level and mathematics at the elementary level. She is interested in connecting southern British Columbia based community partnerships between First Nations Communities and academic researchers who are working on health issues that are of primary concern to Aboriginal peoples in BC. Research Interests
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Adrienne Wasik is a PhD Candidate in medical and cultural anthropology at SFU studying the embodiment of social policy and social inequalities among rural households in BC’s central-interior. Adrienne is interested in the intersection of rural restructuring, social policy, lived experience, gender and health in BC’s central interior. Research Interests
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Dr. Ellen Wiebe has been a family doctor and abortion-provider for 30 years. Her research has been primarily in the area of reproductive health. She pioneered the work on medical abortions induced with methotrexate and misoprostol in Canada. She brought the first mifepristone used for abortion to Canada for trials in 2000 and 2001. She has published a number of trials aimed at improving the care and contraception for women having medical and surgical abortions. Research Interests
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Dr. Caili Wu is a researcher of Hillside Center, a tertiary mental health center of Interior Health. Her PhD is from State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. Her doctoral training was in cognitive psychology. Her current research interest is to understand the population using tertiary mental health services. She has been collecting information such as gender, age, diagnosis, mental illness severity, psychiatric behaviour presentations, and independence on living functions on them. Working with psychiatrists and front line nurses, her ultimate goal is to bridge research with practice to improve the outcome of tertiary mental health services. Research Interests
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January 1, 2010
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