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Katie Misener

Associate Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies | University of Waterloo

Community sport, Inter-organizational relationships, Nonprofit management, Organizational capacity, Social responsibility and sport, Sport and social change

Dr. Paula Gordon

Radiologist/Clinical Professor | Dense Breasts Canada/University of British Columbia

Breast imaging, breast density, breast ultrasound, mammograms, breast cancer

Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell

Director, Professor and Associate Vice-President Research | Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt (OUCH) Lab, Faculty of Health, Department of Psychology, York University

infant, toddler, preschooler, vaccination, parenting behaviours, emotion regulation, children's distress, acute pain, pain responses during vaccines, pain assessment, needle pain, early childhood mental health, distress emotion expression

Sophia Nasr

PhD Physics Student | UC Irvine

Cosmology, Dark matter, Universe, Particle physics, Astrophysics, Early Universe

Daria Boffito

Professor | Polytechnique Montréal

Process Intensification, ultrasound, microwaves, extraction processes, , catalysis= and catalyst design and synthesism, biomass, biofuels, water treatment, design of drug delivery systems, solids characterization