Dr. El-Gabalawy is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Clinical Health Psychology and Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba (UM). She also holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology (Fort Garry), and is an Adjunct Scientist at CancerCare Manitoba. As a Vanier Scholar, she received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from UM in 2015. She also completed a predoctoral research fellowship supported by a CIHR Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement at Yale University in 2013. Before joining the faculty at UM, Dr. El-Gabalawy completed her Clinical Psychology residency at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston Consortium) with a behavioural medicine and civilian trauma clinical emphasis. Dr. El-Gabalawy has been successful at obtaining millions of dollars of funding locally and nationally as both co- and principal investigator. She has over 100 peer reviewed journal publications and book chapters, and has presented research findings in over 150 local, national and international conference proceedings. Dr. El-Gabalawy is also a co-investigator and the Clinical Research Network Director of the Chronic Pain SPOR Network at UM and a member of the Psychology of Pandemic Network (PsyPan). She also serves on the editorial board of General Hospital Psychiatry. Finally, she is the chair of the external advisory board for the Center of Perioperative Mental Health, Washington University. Find Dr. El-Gabalawy on twitter and research gate |
Jordana is a third year PhD candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at UM and is co-supervised by Dr. El-Gabalawy and Dr. Kristin Reynolds. Her primary research interests are in the areas of perioperative mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder in health contexts. Her dissertation examines postoperative outcomes of preoperative distress among patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery, and the feasibility of a targeted preoperative virtual reality intervention to reduce preoperative anxiety. She previously completed her MA under the co-supervision of Dr. El-Gabalawy and Dr. Reynolds, and her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. El-Gabalawy. She has received well over a dozen awards and scholarships throughout her graduate training and has published over 40 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. Most recently, she was awarded the Women's Health Research Foundation of Canada Graduate Scholarship, UM Sheu L. Lee Family Scholarship in Oncology Research, Faculty of Graduate Studies Student Achievement Award, the National Register of Health Service Psychologists Doctoral Award, and the CIMVHR Mark Zamorski Award. You can also find her on Twitter.
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Megan is in her fourth year at the University of Manitoba completing her Bachelor of Science in the Honours Psychology program. She is currently conducting her honours undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. El-Gabalawy. Her thesis focuses on the feasibility of a novel virtual reality program for phantom limb pain among individuals with a lower limb amputation living in the community. She hopes to attend graduate studies in Clinical Psychology in the future.
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Jori is in her fourth year at the University of Manitoba, completing her Bachelor of Science in the Honours Psychology program with a minor in statistics. She is currently conducting her honours undergraduate thesis under the co-supervision of Dr. El-Gabalawy and Jordana Sommer. Her thesis focuses on health anxiety in vulnerable health populations during COVID-19. Jori’s future goals beyond her undergraduate degree include expanding her knowledge in the field by participating in graduate training in the clinical psychology stream, in addition to continuing research.
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Gabrielle completed her Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2019 where her thesis focused on diagnostic imaging resource utilization for low back pain. Her research interests lie in chronic pain, women’s health, healthcare resource use, mixed methods research, and systematic review. She currently is working as a research assistant for the HATLab and the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at UM. She is also the research coordinator for an HSC Foundation grant focused on the utility of a novel online intervention for chronic pain (led by Dr. El-Gabalawy and Dr. Brigitte Sabourin), and for the SPOR Chronic Pain Network.
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Lily is in her second year of her MA in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Manitoba. Her research interests lie in mental health service utilization, trauma, and women’s mental health. She is the research coordinator in the HATLab for a project funded by the National Research Council of Canada examining novel virtual reality interventions for individuals experiencing phantom limb pain. |
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