Meet the Team

Erin Brennand, MD

Lead investigator, Sex, Gender and Women’s Health Hub. Associate Professor and Department Head of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Co-lead of the national GROWW Training Program.

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Alan Santinele Martino, PhD

Assistant Professor in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.

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Amy Metcalfe, PhD

Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. Maternal and Child Health Program Director at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.

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Brenda Leung, PhD

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge.

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Bukola Salami, PhD

Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Scientific Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute.

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Cindy Kalenga

Medical student enrolled in a joint MD/PhD program in the Leaders in Medicine Program at the University of Calgary.

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Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci, PhD

Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Director of Education and Training at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI). Lead for the Transdisciplinary Training Accelerator, One Child Every Child (OCEC).

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Erin Nelson, PhD

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta.

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Gerline Metz, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience and a Tier 1 Board of Governors Research Chair (Healthy Futures) at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge. Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta.

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Gina-Marie Cerantola

A pelvic health physiotherapist in Calgary.

Jadine Paw, MD, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine and Deputy Head of Education in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Calgary. An obstetrician and gynecologist in Calgary.

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Jamie Benham, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. An endocrinologist in Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone.

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Katrina Milaney, PhD

Associate Vice President (Research) and Professor in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.

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Kirsten Fiest, PhD

Associate Professor in the Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Community Health Sciences, and Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. Scientific Director at the O’Brien Institute for Public Health.

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Kristopher Wells, PhD

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) for the Public Understanding of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth at MacEwan University. Founding Director for the MacEwan Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

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Melissa Scott, MA

Indigenous health researcher and educator. Research Associate in the Department of Family Medicine in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. A teacher at Athabasca University of Counselling with Indigenous Women and Aboriginal Women courses.

Mruganka Kale, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. An obstetrician and gynecologist at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary.

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Natalie Scime, PhD

A Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Health & Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough and in the Life Stage Research Program at ICES.

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Pamela Roach, PhD

Assistant Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine and Research Director for Indigenous Engagement in the VPR Office at the University of Calgary. Deputy Director for Population Health in the O’Brien Institute for Public Health.

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Shannon Ruzycki, MD

General internist and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.

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Shazma Mithani, MD

Emergency physician at the Royal Alexandra and Stollery Children’s Hospitals in Edmonton.

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Contact

If you would like to learn more/have any questions, or want to get involved in one of our projects, you can contact the Sex, Gender and Women’s Health Research Hub via sgwhealthhub@ucalgary.ca.