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I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at University of Manitoba and hold an Affiliated Research
position at the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. My research aims to identify precision medicine approaches to neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders by combining genomics, biostatistics, and epidemiology, to advance the outcomes of those affected by neurological and psychiatric disorders. Our work regularly involves an extensive network of Canadian, American, Swedish, and other International collaborators. I am funded by the US Department of Defense, US NIMH and the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centres. We are a "dry-lab" focussed on computation and analysis, but collaborate with "wet-lab" groups internationally.

During my postdoctoral and PhD studies, I held fellowships from the European Commission (Horizon-2020), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), including the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-Horizon 2020 European Fellowship (€180K) and the Government of Canada Banting Fellowship, with over 20 awards during my PhD alone, totalling over $960K in personal salary awards, and $1.8M in peer-reviewed operating and team grants. From 2017-19, I was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Karolinska Institute with Professor Patrick Sullivan and the KI-Psychiatric Genomics Institute to harness my collaborative, problem-solving abilities that I have developed during my doctoral training and apply them to the intricate issues faced today by the psychiatric community. My projects involved utilizing the Swedish National Register data, the Sweden Schizophrenia Study, and other psychiatric cohort studies.

2024

• Course Coordinator, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHMD2012: Instructed ~50 PharmD students in Pharmacogenetics (26 lectures of 60-minutes each).
• Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHMD2004: Instructed ~50 students in Critical Appraisal Pharmacotherapy Literature 1 (One 3-hour lecture)
• Mentor,  College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHMD4000: Instructed 6 fourth year PharmD students in a research project (12 weeks each).

2023

• Course Coordinator, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHMD2012: Instructed 35 PharmD students in Pharmacogenetics (26 lectures of 60-minutes each).
• Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHRM7102: Instructed 8 graduate students in Pharmacoepidemiology (One 3-hour lecture).

2022

• Course Coordinator, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHMD2012: Instructed 55 PharmD students in Pharmacogenetics (26 lectures of 60-minutes each).
• Mentor, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHMD4000: Instructed two fourth year PharmD students in a research project (12 weeks each).

2021

• Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHMD2012: Planned the course syllabus and pre-recorded 10 lectures to be given as part of the Pharmacogenetics course (60-minutes each).

2020

• Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHRM3640: Instructed 55 undergraduate Pharmacy students in Principles of Biotechnology (8 lectures of 75-minutes each).

2019

• Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHRM4470: Current Topics in Pharmacy (1 hour)
• Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHRM7260: Instructed 1 lecture of Pharmacy Graduate Student Seminar (1 hour)
• Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba PHRM3520: Instructed 55 undergraduate Pharmacy students in Scientific Literature Evaluation (5 lectures of 90-minutes each).
• Lecturer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡: Instructed 20 researchers in R-Statistical Software tutoria
• Teaching and Learning Certificate, University of Manitoba: Two-year program designed to develop the knowledge, skills, and reflective practice.

2012-2016

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, UBC: Instructed undergraduate weekly laboratory session; monitored and assisted student biochemical and molecular biology experiments; evaluated student assignments, examinations, and progress; consistently rated highly amongst third-year undergraduate students.

2011-2012

• Laboratory Instructor, Biology Program, Faculty of Science, UBC: BIOL 140 Laboratory Investigations in Life Science: Instructed weekly laboratory sessions and preparatory sessions to enable students to participate in the scientific process; facilitated discussions with students and recorded student progress; assessed student work (assignments, written work, exams) and kept accurate records of student attendance, participation, and marks.

2008-2009

• Problem-Based Learning Facilitator, Rady College of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba