Western University Team
Tara Chen
Co-President and Chief Marketing Officer
Bachelor of Medical Sciences
Year 4, Western University
Anabela Cotovio is currently in her third year of undergrad studying health sciences at McMaster University. She is a project course student currently working on a study at St.Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton Regional Eye Institute under Dr.Chaudhary in assessing the appropriateness and readability of patient-facing educational tools in retinal disease. She was welcomed to COBWEB in high school and presented her model “The Role of Microglia TREM2 on the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease” at various poster fairs including the Canada Wide Science Fair and Sanofi Biogenius Biotechnology Competition. She currently co-leads the McMaster COBWEB Chapter with Fatima where they work with their exec team to help facilitate research projects for both undergrad and high school students in the Hamilton community.
Michael
Co-Chair and Co-Founder
MS.c Candidate, Health Research Methodology, McMaster University
Fatima is currently pursuing her MSc in Health Research Methodology (HRM) at McMaster, under the supervision of Dr. Fox-Robichaud, an academic clinician in the Department of Medicine. As a recent graduate of the Honours Life Science program, she is interested in understanding the downstream effects of the social determinants of health on disease outcomes, progression and the broader implications on patients & the healthcare system (Health Services Research). In her spare time, Fatima teaches, volunteers for not-for-profit organizations and mentors high school students.
As the National Coordinator for Student Engagement & Outreach, she is excited to highlight the work being done by students from across Canada and help build a community where both current and new students can learn from one another and better understand the basics of research together!