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Dennis, Jessica
The last decade has seen an unprecedented explosion of data. In medicine, data are increasingly being generated and linked across electronic health records, administrative databases, and biobanked samples. These resources hold tremendous promise for improving human health and achieving precision medicine, which will only be realized by thoughtful study designs and innovative analyses. In the […]
Butska, Luba
Luba Butska has a BHSc from Ryerson University’s Midwifery Education Program in Toronto and a PhD in Linguistics from Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. She has practiced full scope midwifery for eleven years, first practicing in Calgary where she was also an Assistant Professor of Midwifery at Mount Royal University. After moving to Vancouver […]
De Sousa, Ismalia
Ismalia De Sousa (she/her) is a Doctoral Student and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, and a Research Assistant in the Vancouver Stroke Program at Vancouver General Hospital/University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research will be exploring lived experiences of young women, LGBTQIA+ and visible minorities with a stroke […]
Cabrera, Adriana
Ms. Cabrera is a graduate student in Experimental Medicine at the University of British Columbia, working under the supervision of Dr. Manish Sadarangani in the Vaccine Evaluation Center. Her research involves the development of a vaccine against antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, focusing primarily on Klebsiella pneumoniae. She is interested in finding a new approach that would help to limit the spread […]
Dineen, Tineke
Tineke Dineen is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences. She is a member of the Diabetes Prevention Research Group and is involved in the Small Steps for Big Changes program. Her main research interests focus on learning more about how and […]
Asantewaa Boateng, Sandra
M.A Gender Studies University of Northern British Columbia Gender-related matters have become a controversial issue within sub-Saharan African and, most specifically, Ghana (country of origin), concerning education, health, law, politics, drugs and delinquency. These reasons have steered the direction of my academic passion in the Social Sciences and Humanities. As an undergraduate program, sociology has […]
Battaglini, Ashley
Ashley received her B.Sc. (Honours) Specializing in Psychology at the University of Toronto and is now a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program at UBC. Her research seeks to investigate how individual differences influence cognitions and emotion regulation during stress and its relationship with anxiety and depression. She is currently examining this in participants […]
Bittner, Madison
I am a masters student in the Reproductive and Developmental Science program at UBC, I joined the program in May 2020. I am originally from Calgary, Alberta and completed my bachelors of science in biochemistry at the University of Victoria. My research interests include women’s cancer, specifically hormone receptor positive breast and ovarian cancer. I […]
Bone, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Bone is a biostatistician at B.C. Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and a PhD student in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. His work spans a variety of clinical and methodological disciplines. Through his appointment with the PRE-EMPT (PREganncy Evidence Monitoring, Partnership & Treatment) he works primarily in maternal global health, and has been the […]