Guest Speaker: Shayesteh Jahanfar, PhD
Topic: A Life Time Journey of Twin Studies
Monday, June 13, 2016 at 10:00am to 11:00am in Ritter Annex, Room 941
Shayesteh Jahanfar is a reproductive epidemiologist with 22 years of teaching and research experiences. She is an analytical consultant, an epidemilogist and a UBC instructor supporting health researchers to gain analytical and study design skills. She is a clinician, has a PhD degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology from New South Wales University, Austrailia where she studied the nature versus nuture of polycystic ovary syndrom among adult twins. Her second PhD is in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of British Columbua where she studied fetal, neonatal and maternal sequlae of birth weight and sex discordance among twin gestations.