Brain Canada and Heart & Stroke are excited to announce the recipients of the Personnel Awards for Black Scholars. These new awards aim to promote strategic growth in heart and brain health science within Black communities by supporting Black students to pursue their post graduate studies.
9 students are being supported in pursuing their post graduate studies. We are pleased to celebrate the following successful applicants.
Recipients
MSc Students
Swanston, Adelaide (Wilfrid Laurier University)
The Experience of Pain for Black Women with Postpartum Depression
Musse, Mahad (Women’s College Hospital)
Cardio-Rheumatology: Impact of Social Determinants of Health
Hopkinson, Zhanne (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Evaluating the impact of the chemical environment generated by hypoxic/ischemic cardiac cells on healthy Purkinje Fibres.
Obeng Nkrumah, Samuel (Dalhousie University)
Psychological health and wellness among medical doctors in Canada and the impact of the Wellness4MDs supportive text messaging program.
PhD Students
Ezeugwa, Joy (University of Alberta)
Enhancing walking recovery after stroke through a 24-hour behaviour change approach
Majoni, Tawanda (University Health Network)
Investigating the optimal reactive balance training intensity in chronic stroke patients
Crichlow, Gabrielle (University of Western Ontario)
Getting to Heart of the Matter – Social Determinants of Health, Behaviour Change and Cardiovascular Disease: A Phenomenological Study
Maluach, Alfred (University of Ottawa)
Monitoring and Modulation of Alpha Synuclein in Microglia: Implications for Parkinson’s Disease
Atser, Michael (University of British Columbia)
Investigating the role of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase I in Cardiac Metabolism and Function