Wilfrid Chan, University of Toronto

Perry Guo, University of Toronto

Mei Huang, Research Assistant, Psychology, University of Toronto
I am currently a third year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. I am pursuing a human biology: health and disease major, a physiology minor and a psychology minor. I have worked in the lab for over a year now and I am currently assisting April Au in the estrogen and cognition study. I am also involved in conducting the sleep and stress study with David Li.

Jason Klemensberg, Human Biology & Psychology, University of Toronto
I am currently a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in health and disease (human biology) and psychology. This will be my first year volunteering for Dr. Einstein, who happened to be my professor for health psychology. I will be assisting April Au in her estrogen and cognition study. I will also be involved in a study that focuses on the physiological outcomes that occur as a result of undergoing an oophorectomy in women with the BRCA mutation. In my spare time, I enjoy playing sports and hanging out with friends.

Ju-Eun Justina Lee, Psychology, University of Toronto
Justina Lee is in her final year studying Human Biology Global Health and Psychology. She finished her fourth year independent study project on qualitative analysis of female genital cutting. She is interested in studying women's health and global health. Justina is also insterested in public health and medicine.

David Xiao Li, Psychology, University of Toronto
I'm entering my fourth year at the University of Toronto, studying Global Health and Physiology with a minor in Psychology. Overall, I am interested in understanding and applying a holistic, biopsychosocial approach to studying health. My major research interests include global health, women's health and the social determinants of health. This year, I will be continuing my work on the Sleep and Mood in Daily Life study and the Sleep and Stress study. Outside of school, I enjoy photography, writing, advocacy work and coffee.

Mooney (Siyue) Niu, Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Toronto
I am currently a fourth year undergraduate majoring in neuroscience and psychology. This is my first year in Professor Gillian Einstein?s lab, and I doing an independent research project with her on the relationship between pain and mood. Particularly, I will be focusing on the sex differences of this relationship. Outside of school, I love photography, traveling as well as watching TV episodes.

Mo Yu, Human Biology & Psychology, University of Toronto
I'm currently in my fourth year of undergrad majoring in Human Biology and Psychology. I'm doing a fourth year independent research project with Professor Einstein and we are interested in looking at self-injury prevalence and correlates among international students on Canadian university campus. I love to travel and try different cuisines!

Olga Malinowska, Medicine, University of Toronto
Olga Malinowska is entering her second year of medicine at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include gender identity, medical education, examining the roles taken on by female physicians, and representation of women in medicine. She is working on a determinants of community health (DOCH) project looking at the gender climate for medical students in undergraduate medical education. In her spare time, Olga enjoys napping, cooking, and avoiding haunted houses.

Elizabeth M. Shin, University of Toronto
Elizabeth has recently graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology Specialist. She has taken "Health Psychology" with Dr. Einstein in her 3rd year and is now a co-investigator in April Au's "Estrogen & Cognition" study in which she tests clinical and non-clinical populations. She is also the website editor for the Einstein lab. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming and performing as a pianist.

April Au, Masters candidate, University of Toronto
April is a first year graduate student at the University of Toronto. Broadly, she is interested in interfacing biological and behavioural sex differences. Her Master's thesis investigates how estrogen deprivation in women who have undergone oophorectomies (the surgical removal of the ovaries) affect cognitive functions including attention, verbal and spatial working memory. In her leisure time, she enjoys reading and decorating.

Emily Glazer, Masters candidate, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto
My current interest consists of how we can consider socio-cultural variables, particularly gender, in the study of chronic pain. As the malleability of the nervous system and the multidimensional nature of pain and are being described, both in the experience of pain and in what influences the development of pain chronicity, there is an opportunity to describe how socio-cultural factors influence our bodies in material ways. I am involved in the neurobiology of female genital cutting (FGC) project ongoing in the lab, interested in how potential chronic pain in women affected by FGC (as with pain in any population) has been shaped by the meanings assigned to the ritual, and to female embodiment and body experience. My biocultural program of study is indebted to feminst theories of embodiment, poststructuralism, phenomenology and other feminist approaches to epistemology and science. Please contact me to discuss! emily.glazer@utoronto.ca.

Ramya Kumar, Ph.D. student, Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
My interests in women's health span a range of topics including access to healthcare, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and applications of feminist theory to women's health. I'm in the first year of my PhD program and plan to focus my research for the next few years on the conceptualization of women's bodies in medicine, healthcare and the health policy environment. I'm especially interested in looking at how social constructs like gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability influence access to and delivery of healthcare for women. My geographical area of interest is Sri Lanka.

Xueyan Yang, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Xueyan Yang is now working with Professor Gillian Einstein on sex imbalance and its governance in China and self-injury among adolescents in Canada and China as a post-doctorial fellow at Dalla Lana School of Public Health (2011-2012), University of Toronto. She received her PHD in management science and engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2007. She is now an associate professor at Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, the member of Expert Group of "Caring for Girls" of National Population and Family Planning Commission, the member of Chinese Women Institute and the member of Advisory Committee of Experts of Shaanxi Population and Development Research Center. Up to now, she has obtained nine grants supported by provincial, ministerial, national and international funds and published 33 research articles.
Research interests: population and public policy, gender and reproductive health.