HCS RIC Staff

Laura Gonzalez

Commmunity Research Coordinator

Laura is BrainsCAN’s Community Research Coordinator. She manages OurBrainsCAN, Western University's Cognitive Neuroscience Research Registry to facilitate recruitment of research participants living in the community. She builds relationships and facilitates collaborations with community partners, and is available to advise researchers in preparing ethics submissions and promoting community events.

Ysi Macdonald

Clinical Research Coordinator

e. ysabel.macdonald@uwo.ca

Ysi works closely with clinical personnel at London Health Sciences Centre/ St. Joseph’s Health Care and Western faculty and trainees to facilitate the recruitment of patient participants and support the administration and management of clinical research projects. She collaborates with nonmedical trainees to set up observerships, and with medical trainees to identify appropriate research projects that involve medical and nonmedical research staff.

Kevin Stubbs

fNIRS Programmer Analyst

e. kstubbs5@uwo.ca

Kevin offers expertise to develop, test, analyze, and maintain software tools for collection and analysis of fNIRS neuroimaging data obtained in human participants for the fNIRS community. Kevin supports fNIRS analytic pipelines, and the interface with fMRI, TMS and/or EEG data. These data collection approaches may need to be interfaced with other existing equipment such as eye movement recording, virtual reality displays or touchscreens.

Derek Quinlan

Research Facility Manager (WIRB)

e. dquinla4@uwo.ca

Derek is the first point of contact for accessing shared resources based in the Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB) and works in collaboration to provide technical development and research facility management.