The Owerko Centre Team

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Susan Graham, PhD

Director, Owerko Centre
Scientific Director, Azrieli Accelerator
Professor, Psychology, Faculty of Arts
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Lena Babenko

Lena Babenko, PhD

Cohort Platform Manager 
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Barbara Brownlee

Senior Administrator
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Helen Dunlop

Manager, Communications 
Owerko Centre and Azrieli Accelerator 
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Megan Halvorsen

Megan Halvorsen

Coordinator, Communications
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Lisa Korolyk

Senior Events Specialist
Owerko Centre, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and One Child Every Child 
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Eva Paolucci

Eva Paolucci

Cohort Research Data Analyst 
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Jessica Lynn Walsh

Jessica-Lynn Walsh, MB BCh BAO

Manager, Community Partnered Research and Engagement
Westman Researcher in Residence, Little Red Reading House

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Executive Committee

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Susan Graham, PhD

Director, Owerko Centre
Scientific Director, Azrieli Accelerator
Professor, Psychology, Faculty of Arts 
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Tamara Bodnar

Tamara Bodnar, PhD

Azrieli Accelerator Assistant Professor in Transdisciplinary Neurodevelopment Research, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
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Gerald Giesbrecht, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics; Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine 
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Catherine Lebel, PhD

Associate Professor, Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine 
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Kara Murias, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; Clinical Neurosciences; Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine
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Jane Shearer, PhD

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine
Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology
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Suzanne Tough, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics; Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine
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Courtney Gilchrist

Courtney Gilchrist, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow 

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Bevin Wiley

Master of Science student