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2023

The following awards were presented at the Student Health Research Event that took place on May 11.

Emily Carrese-Chacra

Ed Whitlock Award

Winner: Emma Hsiaowen Chen

Emma Hsiaowen is a master's student in the Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology. A former pre-professional dancer, she is interested in how dance can be used to improve the fitness and balance of older adults. Through her work she has received master’s training scholarships from both the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé and the Canadian Institute for Health Research, and she will be continuing to a PhD fellowship at Concordia in September.

Patricia Dudar Award ($500)

  • Winner: Mathieu Johnson
    Presentation title: Behavioural impact of connectome-wide differences in white matter myelination
  • Winner: Paria Asadi
    Presentation title: Vitamin B5, a coenzyme A precursor, rescues TANGO2 deficiency disease-associated defects in Drosophila and human cells

Réseau de recherche en santé cardiométabolique, diabète et obésité (CMDO) Award ($500)

  • Winner: Brandon Kosik
    Poster presentation: Implications of Actovegin on aerobic exercise performance and cardiac mitochondrial respiration in trained and untrained mice
  • Winner: Emma Hsiaowen Chen
    Poster presentation: Online dance classes as fall prevention programming for women aged 65+

2022

The following awards were presented at the Annual PERFORM Centre Research Conference.

Emily Carrese-Chacra

Ed Whitlock Award

Winner: Emily Carrese-Chacra

Emily Carrese-Chacra is completing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at Concordia University. As a member of the Stress, Interpersonal Relationships, and Health Laboratory, Emily's doctoral research aims to identify interpersonal processes that influence health behavior change in younger as well as older adults. More specifically, her research examines the specific interpersonal processes (i.e., social control, communal coping, autonomy support) that may play a role in how overweight or obese, cohabiting romantic partners influence each other as they attempt to alter their health behaviors (i.e., eating and physical activity habits) post the COVID-19 confinement period. This research will inform couples-based interventions for health behavior initiation and maintenance by highlighting key interpersonal processes clinicians need to target in their couple interventions. Moving forward, Emily will continue to focus on promoting health and wellbeing in the older adult community in her volunteer work, through her graduate training, and her future clinical practice.

Patricia Dudar Award ($500)

  • Winner: Christiane Meyer
    Presentation title: Environmental desynchrony affects voluntary alcohol intake and emotionality during alcohol withdrawal in female rats
  • Winner: Stefanie A. Tremblay
    Presentation title: Accounting for covariance in studies of multimodal microstructure — a model for multivariate quantification in health and disease

Réseau de recherche en santé cardiométabolique, diabète et obésité (CMDO) Award ($500)

  • Winner: Emily Marcotte
    Poster presentation: Evaluation of motor functioning after Bmal1 Habenular knockout
  • Winner: Hanieh Mohammadi
    Poster presentation: The Effect of Antihypertensive Treatment on Cerebral Pulsatility in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Risk Factors
  • Winner: Pascale Doherty-Haigh
    Poster presentation: Impact of Bmal1 Knockout in the Nucleus Accumbens on Alcohol Drinking Behaviour
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