Biography:

Michaela Ryan is a master’s student in the Women’s and Children’s Health Sciences (WACH) program at the University of British Columbia. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Cape Breton University, where she explored how older women understand their body image and navigate body functionality issues in their sexual lives as part of her undergraduate thesis. She is currently a graduate researcher in the UBC Sexual Health Research Lab under the supervision of Dr. Lori Brotto, where she is presently working on eSense-PVD, a study which aims to adapt an existing online sexual health intervention (eSense) to address the pain and sexual health concerns of individuals with Provoked Vestibulodynia (PVD), as well as evaluate the adapted intervention’s feasibility, usability and efficacy. Michaela Ryan is also a recipient of one of this year’s CIHR CGRS-M Awards.