Meet Our Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Meet a few Faculty of Medicine’s graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and learn more about our many Graduate Programs, Departments, Centres, Institutes, and affiliated hospital sites.


Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences
Meet Beverly Larssen, a dual degree student in Physical Therapy (MPT) and Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD) who is researching the impact of bimanual robotic training on the recovery of upper-extremity function in post-stroke adults. Read More >


Population and Public Health
Meet Mohammad Karamouzian, a PhD student in Population and Public Health who studies HIV/AIDS harm reduction. Read More >


Rehabilitation Sciences
Meet Alessio Gallina, a PhD student in Rehabilitation Sciences who researches muscle activation and pain. Read More >


Experimental Medicine
Meet Else Bosman, a PhD student in Experimental Medicine who research UVB and vitamin D on intestinal homeostasis. Read More >


Neuroscience
Meet Ellen Koch, a PhD student in Neuroscience. Ellen’s research involves measuring glutamate transmission in Huntington’s Disease using an optogenetic probe. Read More >


Rehabilitation Sciences
Meet Dennis Louie, a PhD student in the Rehabilitation Sciences program. Dennis is researching walking recover after stroke using a robotic exoskeleton.   Read More >


Medical Genetics
Meet Samantha Wilson, a PhD student in the Medical Genetics program and a member of the Healthy Starts research group. Samantha studies genetic and epigenetic profiling of placental insufficiency conditions. Read More >


Experimental Medicine
Meet Bushra Mahmood, a PhD student in the Experimental Medicine program. Bushra’s research evaluates the influence of social norms, culture, and religion on physical activity behaviour of Muslim South Asian women. Read More >


MD/PhD Program
Meet Frank Lee, an MD/PhD student studying in the Centre for Blood Research. Frank is studying the role of clotting proteins in clot dissolution, with an interest in creating novel therapies for the treatment of heart disease and stroke. Read More >


Population and Public Health
Meet Heather Palis, a PhD student in Population and Public Health. Heather researches daily treatment adherence and stimulant use among patients receiving supervised injectable opioid assisted treatment in Vancouver. Read More >