SEX & GENDER HUB ADVISORS
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Gillian Einstein is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Research Institute as well as the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital, and a member of both the Institute for Life Course & Aging and the Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also the Founder of the Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health at the University of Toronto, The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair of Women’s Brain Health and Aging, and Guest Professor of Gender and Health, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Dr. Einstein was previously a faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology, Duke University where she founded and directed the first-year program Exploring the Mind and was the recipient of the Alumni Undergraduate Teaching Award. She has also been a Scientific Review Officer at the US National Institutes of Health, and the Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Women’s Health at the University of Toronto. In 2010 she was a visiting Professor at Harvard University in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has been a member of the Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research from 2010 – 2016 and currently serves as Chair of their Advisory Committee since 2017. She also founded the Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex Research (COGS).
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Noelia Calvo is a Linguist and PhD in Psychology from Argentina. She is now working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Einstein lab. Dr. Calvo researches risk and reserve proxies in dementia. She is particularly interested in the role of language, ethnicity and biological sex in Alzheimer’s disease. To understand the interactive effects of different social determinants of health, Dr. Calvo uses behavioral data (quantitative and qualitative) together with neuroimaging techniques, and multivariate analysis. The ultimate goal of her research is to facilitate and promote health equity in the study and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
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einsteinlabmanager@utoronto.ca
Lindsey Thurston received her PhD in psychology and neuroscience from the University of Toronto where she studied gender/sex, neuroendocrinology, and behaviour in white matter microstructure. Her multimodal neuroimaging work attempts to bridge social and scientific domains by drawing on neurofeminist frameworks. Lindsey’s master’s research, conducted at Queen’s University, explored working memory and psychopharmacology in non-human animal models.