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Women's Health Research Foundation of Canada - Scholarship Program

Previous Scholarship Recipients

  • 2011: Kelli Berzuk, PhD student (Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Physiotherapy) Topic: Evaluation of increasing awareness of pelvic floor muscle function on pelvic floor dysfunction.
  • 2010: Christine Henriksen, PhD student (Psychology) Topic: The relationship between childhood adversity and eating disorders in the general population.
  • 2009: Jonathon R Walker, MSc student (Physiology) Topic: The cardioprotective effects of Probucol against Trastuzumab and Anthracycline mediated cardiotoxicity.
  • 2008: Jennifer Wall, MSc student (Landscape Architecture) Topic: Rehabilitation and meeting needs of women in an institutional setting through programmatic landscape design.
  • 2007: Mollie Bates, MA student (Psychology) Topic: Readiness and motivation for change in women with eating disorders
  • 2006: Sandra Dong Huang, MSc student (Community Health Sciences) Topic: Case of 3 HIV prevention programs in Karnataka India undertaken by 3 NGO’s and a sex workers collective
  • 2005: Susy Santos, PhD student (French, Spanish & Italian (Individual Interdsciplinary Program, IIP)) Topic: An interdisciplinary approach to mental health among older adults and aging women
  • 2004: Hannah Neufeld, PhD (Community Health Sciences) Topic: Understanding aboriginal women’s experiences with gestational diabetes in the urban context of Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • 2003: Meta Kreiner, MSc student (Community Health Sciences) Topic: Stakeholder perceptions of midwifery integration into the health care system in Manitoba
  • 2002: Virginia Spencer, PhD student (Biochemistry) Topic: Histone acetylation and nuclear structure in gene expression
  • 2001: Sarah Bowen, PhD student (Community Health Sciences) Topic: Assessing the responsiveness of health care organizations to culturally diverse groups
  • 2000: Lisa Norquay, PhD student (Physiology) Topic: Regulatory P sequences which direct expression of human growth hormone chorionic somatommotropia gene family
  • 1999: Maureen Heamen, PhD student (IIP Program) Topic: Nursing Risk factors for preterm birth
  • 1999: with Glaxo Wellcome Margaret Kozlowski, MSc student (Nursing) Topic: Variables that affect contraceptive use in postpartum adolescent females
  • 1999: with Pfizer Canada Inc Karen Paroschy, PhD student (Physiology) Topic: Role of central nervous system in bladder control
  • 1998: Theresa Mayer, MSc Student (Community Health Sciences) Topic: Gender differences in psychological distress between males and females
  • 1998: Farah Sheikh, PhD student (Physiology) Topic: Differences in regenerative recovery rate between male and female cardiac myocytes induced to divide
  • 1997: JoAnne Sawatsky, PhD student Topic: Health benefits of exercise in relation to cardiovascular health
  • 1996: Lanette Friesen, PhD student (Chemistry and Physics and NRC Institute for Biodiagnostics) Topic: Magnetic resonance imaging procedure for the early detection of ovarian cancer
  • 1995: Amanda Coutts, PhD student (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) Topic: Molecular biological approaches toward understanding breast cancer
  • 1994: Lynda Balneaves, MSc student (Nursing) Topic: Use of alternative treatments of women diagnosed with breast cancer
  • 1993: Gail Marchessault, PhD student (Community Health Sciences) Topic: Attitudes toward weight issues of middle-aged women, their teenage daughters and health professionals
  • 1992: Deborah Handziuk, MSc student (Educational Psychology) Topic:Reporting of sexual abuse in rural communities

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