Dr. Jessica Liauw, Investigator
Dr. Jessica Liauw is a Maternal Fetal Medicine clinician-scientist at BC Women’s Hospital and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University. She completed her Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship, Masters of Health Sciences in Population and Public Health, and the Clinician-Investigator fellowship at UBC. Her research interests include fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, medical decision-making, and reproductive health needs of marginalized populations. Dr. Liauw is supported by a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator award.
Dr. Madeleine Ennis, Research Associate
Dr. Madeleine Ennis completed her PhD in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2020. She is pursuing a career researching reproductive health, with a specific interest in improving access to high quality equitable sexual and reproductive health services. Currently Dr. Ennis is a Research Associate in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at UBC and holds a CIHR Chair Seed Grant to develop knowledge translation activities and materials for the Canadian Abortion Provider Survey through the Contraception and Abortion Research Team.
Larisse Melo, Research Manager
Larisse is the Interim Research Manager of the OBGYN Research Program at the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Larisse has a Master of Science degree in Human Nutrition from UBC and has been working in maternal and child health research since 2011. Prior to joining the OBGYN Department, Larisse worked in a wide range of studies assessing the nutritional status of pregnant & postpartum women and their neonates, and was also a Lecturer at the UBC Department of Human Nutrition. Larisse is passionate about turning research questions into robust projects, and thus she provides support with the Grey Zone study logistics.
Hannah Foggin, Research Assistant
Hannah Foggin is a final year medical student at UBC. Her prior research has tied together her statistical, healthcare, and obstetric interests, towards defining and prioritizing value in healthcare. She completed her Bachelors of Science at UBC in 2018 with a Combined Major in Statistics, Life Sciences, and Chemistry. She has worked in research including shared clinical decision making, healthcare funding models, patient-reported outcome measures, risk communication in obstetrics, and in obstetric management decision making. Hannah has had the honor of working with this ‘Grey Zone’ team since 2019. She hopes to see this project – and others like it in the future – help providers navigate patients through grey zones of obstetric treatment decisions, to reach decisions that are right for them.