EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
DR. LORI BROTTO (she/her)
Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI)
Dr. Lori Brotto is the Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute located in Vancouver, British Columbia, a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia, and a registered psychologist. Dr. Brotto also holds a Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health and is the Director of UBC Sexual Health Research. Her research primarily focuses on developing and testing psychological and mindfulness-based interventions for women with sexual desire and arousal difficulties and women with chronic genital pain.
DR. SOFIA AHMED (she/her)
Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI)
Dr. Sofia Ahmed is the Academic Lead – Women’s Health Research at WCHRI. Dr. Ahmed is a nephrologist, a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the University of Alberta Chair in Sex and Gender. A champion of women’s health across the life cycle and a clinician-scientist with a focus on sex and gender differences in human kidney/cardiovascular outcomes, she is the Chair of the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health Advisory Board, Chair of the Canadian Medical Association Journal Governing Council and President of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences.
DR. RULAN PAREKH (she/her)
Research and Innovation Institute, Women’s College Hospital (WCRI)
Dr. Rulan Parekh is the Vice President, Academics at Women’s College Hospital. In her role, Dr. Parekh leads the advancement of the hospital’s goal to build sustainable, world-class research, innovation and education. Dr. Parekh is a clinician-scientist, and an international leader in clinical epidemiology and translational research in kidney disease. She is also a staff nephrologist at Women’s College Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children, as well as a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine in the Departments of Medicine, Paediatrics, Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
DR. FRANK P. MACMASTER (He/Him)
IWK Health
Dr. Frank MacMaster is the Vice President, Research and Innovation at IWK Health. In his role, Dr. MacMaster leads the application of research and innovation to further IWK Health’s goal of a healthy future for women, children, youth and families in all their diversity. His research focuses on understanding the neurobiology of pediatric neuropsychiatric disorders. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University.
STAFF
DR. TAMIL KENDALL (she/her)
Tamil Kendall is the Director of the Partnership for Women’s Health Research Canada. For more than twenty years, she has worked at the intersection of research, policy and practice in the field of women’s health and rights with community-based organizations, universities, government and the United Nations. In addition to her role with PWHR, Tamil is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia.
Contact Tamil at tkendall@pwhr.org
The Partnership for Women’s Health Research Canada uses the term women to refer to all people who identify as women. We use trans and non-binary as umbrella terms to refer to people with a wide range of gender identities that are different from the gender they were assigned at birth.
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