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Comfort, Ruth
Ruth completed her midwifery training at the University of British Columbia in 2006. After a few years practicing midwifery in the Great White North she returned to her home town of Vancouver. You wouldn’t know it because she works hard to hide her accent, but she is actually a Maritimer! In addition to being a […]
Castillo, Eliana
Dr. Castillo’s research focuses on closing the gap between what we know helps mother and babies live healthy lives and what actually happens in everyday clinical practice: this is called implementation science. She partners with patients to understand their journey during pregnancy, focusing on opportunities to engage in a dialogue about interventions that we know […]
Baribeau, Isabelle
Clinical Nurse Specialist Maternity Unit & Cardiac Obstetric Program at St. Paul’s Hospital
Zusman, Enav
Enav Zusman is a PhD student with Dr. Tim Oberlander and Dr. Robert Platt in the Reproductive and Developmental Sciences program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Enav’s research interests include pharmacoepidemiology, perinatal epidemiology and mental health. The main focus of her research is the investigation of the associations between prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor […]
Shin, Hannah
I am a settler of colour, Korean-Canadian, and I acknowledge that I hold biases that may impact my worldview. I am passionate about understanding how sociopolitical factors influence health and wellbeing of IBPOC communities. Research interests: Community-based participatory research, ethnographic research, health and social inequities, sexual and reproductive health rights, social justice initiatives for IBPOC population, […]
Boycott, Cayla
Cayla was born and raised in Vancouver and completed her Bachelors in Nutritional Science with honours at UBC. During her undergrad is when she discovered the field of nutri-epigenomics and started working in the lab to pursue her interest in how specific nutrients can impact the epigenome. She started her PhD program in Human nutrition […]
Stefanska, Barbara
I am an Assistant Professor in Food, Nutrition and Health Program in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. My area of expertise is nutritional epigenomics and cancer epigenetics. I completed a Master’s in Public Health and a PhD in nutritional epigenomics at Medical University of […]
van Donkelaar, Paul
Paul van Donkelaar is a professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences and the Associate Vice-Principal, Research at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. His research team examines mechanisms and effects of traumatic brain injury on cerebrovascular, sensorimotor, and neurocognitive function in contact sport athletes and survivors of intimate partner violence.
Chipperfield, Kate
Dr. Chipperfield is the Division Head of Hematopathology at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Health Center laboratory. Prior to this, she was a staff Hematopathologist and Medical Director of the Transfusion Medicine Laboratory at Vancouver General Hospital for eleven years. Dr. Chipperfield is a Clinical Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Pathology […]