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Edith Chen, Ph.D
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Dr. Chen is co-director of the Psychobiology of
Health Laboratory at the University of British
Columbia. Dr. Chen received a B.A. in history of
science from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in
clinical psychology from the University of
California, Los Angeles. She completed a
clinical internship at Western Psychiatric
Institute & Clinic, followed by a post-doctoral
fellowship in health psychology at the
University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Chen was an
Assistant Professor at Washington University in
St. Louis from 2000-2003. In 2003, she moved to
the University of British Columbia. At UBC, she
is Professor of Psychology and the Canada
Research Chair in Health and Society. Her research focuses on understanding
the psychosocial and psychobiological pathways
that explain relationships between low
socioeconomic status and physical health
outcomes in childhood.
Email:
echen(at)psych.ubc.ca |
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Greg Miller, Ph.D |
Dr. Miller is co-director
of the Psychobiological Determinants of Health
Laboratory. After receiving a Ph.D. in clinical
psychology at the University of California, Los
Angeles, he completed a clinical internship at
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, followed
by a post-doctoral fellowship in health
psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr.
Miller joined the faculty of Washington
University in Saint Louis July 2000 and after
three years there, accepted his current position
at the University of British Columbia, where he
is Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Miller’s research examines the biological
mechanisms through which thoughts and feelings
“get inside the body” to influence the
development and progression of medical
illnesses. More on his specific projects can be
found in the
research emphasis section
of this website. This work is supported by
grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research, the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development, the Heart and Stroke
Foundation of Canada, the Human Early Learning
Partnership at UBC, and the Networks of Centres
of Excellence for Allergy, Genes, and
Environment.
Dr. Miller has received a number of honors for
his research, including the Young Investigator
Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine,
the Early Career Award from the American
Psychosomatic Society, and the Distinguished
Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions
from the American Psychological Association. He
is an Associate Editor at two journals,
Psychological Bulletin and Psychosomatic
Medicine.
Email:
gemiller(at)psych.ubc.ca |
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Post Docs |
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Peter Garvin
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Peter has a post-doc position
in the lab. He has a Ph.D. in public health
science, a master’s degree in Public Health
Science focusing on epidemiology and
undergraduate courses in biology from Linköping
University, Sweden. Peter has a broad interest
of health disparities over socioeconomic status.
In particular, he is interested in biomarkers
related to stress and inflammation that could
help explain the mechanistic link between
psychosocial factors and various outcomes.
During the post-doc period at the laboratory,
Peter works with the Life Conditions, Stress and
Health study with acute coronary events as the
main outcome, and with the PATHways study with
asthma as the main outcome. Peter is mainly
financed from the Swedish Heart and Lung
Foundation.
Link to Life Conditions,
Stress and Health study:
http://www.imh.liu.se/samhallsmedicin/socialmedicin/lsh-studien?l=en&sc=true
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Graduate Students |
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Hannah Schreier, M.A. |
Hannah is a 3rd year PhD student in the lab. She
received her
Bachelor of Arts Honours with a major in
Psychology and a minor in
East Asian Studies from McGill University.
Interested in just about
anything relating to health psychology, be it on
an individual or
international level, she is currently looking at
how the family
environment, for example routines in everyday
family life, impacts
the immunological profile of youth with asthma
and how socioeconomic
status influences youth's physical health
outcomes through factors at
the individual, family, and neighborhood level.
Email: hannahs(at)psych.ubc.ca |
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Meanne Chan,
M.A.
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Meanne started in the lab as an honours student
in June 2006. For her
honours thesis, Meanne investigated the
relationships between socioeconomic status,
asthma self-efficacy, and quality of life, in
family that are dealing with pediatric asthma. During her
years in the lab, Meanne has developed
strong interests in health psychology and
is now a graduate student
with Dr. Edith Chen. Meanne is
interested in further investigating the links
between psychosocial variables and physiological
outcomes with variables that may have an impact
on these complex relationships, such as
resilience factors. In addition, Meanne is also
involved in the Personality Perception Lab and
has worked with Dr. Jeremy Biesanz in
personality research. In
her free time, Meanne enjoys the little
pleasures of Vancouver, her black tuxedo cat,
and swimming.
Email:
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Michael Murphy, M.A..
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Michael is working in the lab
under Dr. Greg Miller. He received a Bachelor
of Science in
Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Science
from the University of
Washington, where he studied stress and coping,
mainly in older
spousal caregivers of patients with dementia.
Michael continues to be
involved in caregiving research and is working
in the lab on, among
other things, the Psychobiology of Caregiving
study. More generally,
he is interested in how stress and coping
processes affect health.
Email:
murphym(at)psych.ubc.ca |
Kharah Ross,
M.A.
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Kharah is a graduate student whose supervisor is
Dr. Gregory Miller. She has a B.Sc. in
Biological Sciences and a B.Sc. in Psychology
(Honours) from the University of Calgary. Kharah
completed her Honours degree under supervision
of Dr. Tavis Campbell and Dr. Brenda Key, where
she studied the relationship between depression
and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to
lab stressors. She is currently involved in
several projects, including the Early Life
Study, and is in the process of completing her
MA thesis on how quality of social encounters
predict changes in metabolic health in young
women. Kharah's research interests revolve
around understanding the relationships between
psychosocial processes and biology, and how
these interact to affect health and well-being.
She enjoys tempting her labmates with tasty
home-made treats, walks to the coffee shop, and
not getting caught in the rain.
Email:
kmross(at)interchange.ubc.ca |
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Research Staff |
Olivia Kitt, B.S.W.
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Olivia joined our lab in June
2010. She co-ordinates
the CHILD study
which is run out of the BC Children and
Women's Hospital.
Email:
oliviakitt(at)gmail.com
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Adam Leigh, B.Sc.
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Faster than a spinning ultra-centrifuge, more
powerful than FACS laser, able to pipet entire
96-well plates in a single motion! Up on the
fourth floor labs, look! It's a bird! It's a
rat! No, it's Adam Leigh!
Yes it's Adam Leigh!
Strange visitor from another department, who
came to the Psychobiological Determinants of
Health lab with lab skills and techniques far
beyond those of normal RAs! Adam Leigh! Who can
get blood from the most deep and narrow of
veins, enter piles of subject packages with his
bare hands, and who disguised as a mild-mannered
research assistant, takes on the never ending
lab work, for data, knowledge, and the
scientific way!
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Sarah Liu, B.Sc.
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Sarah graduated in 2010 from
the University of Washington with a B.Sc in
Psychology Honours. Her honours thesis explored
the effect of therapy on graduate student
therapists with Dr. Robert Kohlenberg.
Currently, she works as a coordinator on
the Early Life study. She plans to attend
graduate school in 2012 for adult clinical
psychology. Her research interests include
treatment development for depression and therapy
supervision.
Sarah loves to travel and wants to see the world!
Meanwhile, she likes to cook pasta and dream of
Italy.
Email:
sarahl(at)psych.ubc.ca |
Gaye McDonald-Jones, M.Sc.
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Gaye completed her Master's
degree in Animal Science at the University of
Guelph. She joined our lab in July 2008 and manages our wet-lab.
Email:
gmj(at)psych.ubc.ca |
Carola Munoz, M.Sc.PH (cand.)
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Carola joined the lab in
October of 2009 and is the Research Coordinator for the
Psychobiology of Caring for a Spouse with Cancer
Study.
She graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and
is a MSc. candidate in Population and
Public Health at SFU.
Carola has a diverse research background and has worked
both locally and internationally . Her research
experience includes immigrant women’s health,
pharmaceutical politics and practices in
relation to antibiotics use, and
communication
barriers in long-term care facilities.
Email:
carolamunoz(at)psych.ubc.ca
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Alex Trewthewy, B.A.
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Alex started working in our
lab in 2007, coordinating the PATHways project. She now coordinates the LINKS
project.
Email:
alexg(at)psych.ubc.ca |
Research Assistants |
Lisa Cavey ,
B.Sc.
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Lisa
graduated in 2009 from Dalhousie with a Bachelor
of Science in Biology and Psychology. She is
currently a research assistant on both the Early
Life and Family LINKS studies.
Email:
lcavey(at)psych.ubc.ca |
Jule Cohen,
B.A.
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Julie
is a research assistant on the Caregiver Study.
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Amanda Ho,
B.Sc.
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Amanada
graduated in 2010 from UBC with a Bachelor of
Science. Currently, she works as a research
assisitant on the Family LINKS study.
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Will Lee, B.A |
Will
graduated in 2010 from the University of British
Columbia with a degree in Psychology. He works as a research assistant on the
Family LINKS
study.
Email:
will_lee36(at)hotmail.com
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Students and Volunteers |
Family LINKS
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Leora Frimer, Laura Roy, Grace Xiao and Ashley
Whillans |
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CHILD study |
Gina Faigen, M.A.,
Louise Young, M.A. |
Alumni |
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Sarah Yager |
Shelly Fitzgerald
Anita Hibbert |
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Gillian Albert |
Maggie Hanson Bublitz, Ph.D Lily Wong |
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Eva Zysk |
Hope Walker, M.A.
Jennifer Wong |
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Nicolas Rohleder, Ph.D |
Blake Abawi
Nandini Maharaj |
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Jutta M. Wolf, Ph.D |
Ekin Blackwell, Ph.D.
Elizabeth
Stanford, Ph.D. |
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Erin Nicholls |
Melissa Griffin
Teresa Marin,
Ph.D. |
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Lianne Tomfohr |
Jane Woo
Raheel
Inayatullah |
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Michelle Lundrigan |
Jane Sun
Hasti
Gouldooz |
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Maryam Mahboubi |
Jennifer Munch
Eastwood Zhao |
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Lydia Kirk-MacDonald |
Alvin Lim
Tara Martin |
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Jasmen Sze |
Sherilynn Chan |
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Laurel Paterson |
Cinnamon Stetler, Ph.D |
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Shelley Flemming |
Krysta Cochrane |
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Genevieve Tam, M.D. |
Rama Murali, M.A. |
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Eric Zhou |
Louise Chim |
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