PART Committee 2020-2021

Mahdieh was a research assistant at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta and worked on projects on neurodevelopmental disabilities in children. Her areas of interest include clinical neuroscience, kids’ mental health, and research methodologies in community-based studies.

Maathangi has a vested interest in improving access to care and support for families and children with neurodevelopmental and intellectual disabilities, with a particular focus on those who are newly landed immigrants.

With a combined lens of clinical and educational research, Lauren is studying the special interests of children and teens with autism.

Kaela started her academic career at the University of Guelph where, through Biomedical Engineering, she specialized in signal processing in conjunction with a foundation in anatomy and pathology. A Master’s degree at the University of Waterloo continued her education and launched her into research.

Celia is currently a fourth year medical student at the University of British Columbia. Prior to medical school, she completed a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree at McMaster University with a specialization in Child Health.

Her doctoral worked examined hand re-organization following childhood stroke using multi-modal brain imaging techniques. As a post-doctoral fellow, she shifted from studying mechanisms of recovery to mechanisms of injury to the brain in a juvenile rat model of stroke.

Sara Izadi-Najafabadi is a PhD candidate of Rehabilitation Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She works with Dr. Jill Zwicker on a project to investigate the effect of rehabilitation on brain function and structure of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD).

Dr. Sarah Hutchison is postdoctoral fellow at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and the Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia.

Lori Sacrey received her PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, where she studied skilled reaching movements in neurotypical babies and adults, as well as adults with Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease.