Dr. El-Gabalawy is an Assistant 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. She also holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology (Fort Garry Campus). As a Vanier Scholar, she received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Manitoba in 2015 under the co-supervision of Drs. Corey Mackenzie (Psychology) and Jitender Sareen (Psychiatry). She also completed a predoctoral research fellowship supported by a CIHR Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement at Yale University under the supervision of Dr. Robert Pietrzak. Before joining the faculty at the University of Manitoba, Dr. El-Gabalawy completed her Clinical Psychology residency at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston Consortium) with a behavioural medicine and civilian trauma emphasis. Dr. El-Gabalawy is also a co-investigator and the Clinical Research Director of the Chronic Pain SPOR Network at the University of Manitoba. Find Dr. El-Gabalawy on research gate |
Caitlin is a third year PhD student in Clinical Psychology working under the supervision of Dr. El-Gabalawy. Her primary research interests are understanding the complex relationship between mental health and inflammation, and behavioural interventions aimed at improving mental and physical health. Her dissertation focuses on the impact of anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder on indicators of disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis patients. She is also examining the impact of an online cognitive behavioural intervention on mental and physical health outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Caitlin has received doctoral funding from the University of Manitoba and the Arthritis Society. She is also the Prairie Regional Director for the Canadian Arthritis Trainee Association. Click here for her bio.
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Jordana is a second year MA student in the Clinical Psychology program and is co-supervised by Dr. El-Gabalawy and Dr. Kristin Reynolds. Her MA thesis examines the relationship between perioperative dissociation, delirium and post-traumatic stress disorder using a mixed-method approach. Her MA research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the University of Manitoba. She has also received a scholarship from the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba. Jordana previously completed her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. El-Gabalawy and was awarded the Ten Have Award for the most outstanding undergraduate Psychology thesis and the Canadian Psychological Association Certificate for Academic Excellence. She is also involved in several other studies focused primarily on post-traumatic stress disorder and health including perioperative medicine.
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Elena is a research assistant in the HATLab and is a second year MA student in the Clinical Psychology program co-supervised by Dr. Matthew Keough and Dr. Edward Johnson. She previously completed her Master’s of Science in Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Kornelsen, a collaborator of Dr. El-Gabalawy's. In the HATLab, Elena is involved in projects relating to anxiety and trauma-related disorders and comorbid chronic pain, and the impact of comorbidity on substance misuse. She is also the research coordinator for a funded randomized controlled trial examining the impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction on total knee arthroplasty outcomes (co-PI's: El-Gabalawy & Kornelsen).
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