Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson (RN, BN) is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. Clinical experiences locally and abroad have fueled Jacqueline’s interest in exploring patient and family engagement in healthcare research, decisions, and evaluation. Jacqueline’s CIHR-funded doctoral research addresses a call-to-action by Alberta parents and involves co-developing a patient-reported experience […]

Laurence Watelle

I am a pediatric resident who had so many questions that only research could be the right path for me. The focus of my current project is on incorporation of patient reported outcomes in research database for people with heart defect. My projects for the future are to build databases and drive research toward optimizing […]

Li Qing Wang

Li Qing is passionate about maternal and fetal health in both the basic science and the clinical aspects. During her undergraduate studies, Li Qing studied CCR5 polymorphisms and pre-eclampsia with Dr. Wendy Robinson. For her PhD research project, Li Qing is studying both genetic and epidemiologic risk factors of pre-eclampsia. Through studying immune-related methylation quantitative […]

Lyndsey Hahn

Lyndsey Hahn is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Rehabilitation Science within the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2020. Prior to her PhD, she completed a Master of Science […]

Alexandra Cambier

I am a pediatric nephrologist and an immunologist with a focus on pediatric IgA nephropathy. My primary research interest is the identification of biomarkers and specific prognostic factors of children IgA nephropathy (cIgAN). My research portfolio includes the realization of a French children IgA nephropathy cohort. One of my focuses is to identify children IgAN […]

Maria-Elena Lautatzis

Dr.Maria-Elena Lautatzis (MD, FRCPC, MSc) is a Pediatric Endocrinologist working at the Winnipeg Children’s Hospital who completed her pediatrics training at the University of Manitoba and her fellowship training at the Hospital for Sick Children. She obtained a MSc in Nutritional Sciences form the University of Toronto. She has a particular clinical and academic interest […]

Amanda Rande

Playing competitive rugby for seven years taught me a lot about my brain and body. Following, a serious concussion my interest in the brain and how it recovers after injury increased. This inspired me to complete a Bachelor of Science in kinesiology and continue my education with a master’s in neuroscience. My master’s thesis focuses […]

Andrea Johnson

Andrea is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto and a Research Fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children. She has recently completed a PhD through the School of Social Work at UBC where she examined the early posttreatment experiences of adolescents who had completed treatment for cancer. Her […]

Anna MacKinnon

Dr. Anna MacKinnon is a clinical psychologist and researcher in perinatal mental health and early child development. Her work aims to identify risk and protective factors to inform the development of innovative interventions that promote resilience and prevent mental health problems. She’s worked with large cohort studies to examine multilevel social (e.g., neighborhood) and biological […]

Arielle Perrotta

Arielle Perrotta is a PhD student supervised by Dr. Jennifer Leason in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary. I am passionate about social justice, including social equality, gender-based experiences, and decolonization which have inspired my research interests in qualitative research methodologies; feminist theory; women’s sexual and reproductive health; and Indigenous maternal health. […]