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Catherine Anderson (scientist)

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98:, graduating with a BSc in Microbiology. She then worked with youth with disabilities, sang and played the piano, and spent a year travelling internationally. After seven years, she began studying Medical Genetics, receiving a Ph.D in 2002. After graduation, she accepted a postdoctoral position, researching pre-eclampsia at BC Children's and Women's Hospital and the 117:'s selection committee to protest the lack of female nominees for the induction and she worried about the message being sent to female students by this. She stated, "It's important for young people to see people who look like them being successful. The Hall of Fame is supposed to represent the best and the brightest in Canada and it's just not doing that." 102:. However, while studying pre-eclampsia, she "was forced to take long term disability leave." She began working at the medical department at UBC, tutoring students, and began working on outreach and writing articles for Genome BC. This work led to her current positions at UBC and 422: 427: 283: 259: 167: 452: 432: 114: 308: 382: 233: 442: 333: 199: 260:"Two UBC professors resign from selection committee from Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame due to lack of female representation" 91:, despite being unable to skate. Growing up, she was uninterested in science as her classes at school primarily focused on memorization. 457: 417: 437: 95: 62: 42: 357: 175: 447: 103: 66: 99: 58: 57:, a potentially fatal disease that can impact pregnant women, at BC Children's and Women's Hospital and the 412: 207: 383:"Introducing the 2016 YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Nominees - Education, Training & Development" 88: 406: 61:. She currently serves as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at 54: 71: 309:"Science hall of fame has no excuse for ignoring women: Editorial | Toronto Star" 84: 110: 284:"Female researchers quit body honouring scientists after no women nominated" 128: 32: 334:"Researchers quit science Hall of Fame panel over lack of women nominees" 423:
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in the Education, Training & Development category.
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