Please join this special Faculty of Arts research presentation featuring our current Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellows. Now in its fifth year, this postdoctoral program is generously sponsored by the Lupina Foundation and supports the best and brightest researchers addressing the social determinants of health.
Meet the speakers
Dr. Trent N. Cash, Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2025-27
Every year, millions of Canadians make complex medical decisions that require them to balance the pros and cons of multiple courses of action. Dr. Trent Cash explores decision makers’ awareness and understanding of their own decision-making processes when faced with complex choices like these. Specifically, he studies decision makers’ metacognitive knowledge of why they make the decisions that they do. In his Lupina postdoctoral work, Dr. Cash investigate how patients facing complex medical decisions develop an understanding of their own preferences and priorities, and how the accuracy of this metacognitive knowledge influences their satisfaction with the medical care that they receive.
Dr. Rotem Paz, Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2025-27
Dr. Rotem Paz focuses on the contribution of autobiographical memories to self-schemas and mental health. As a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist (licensed in Israel) with training in neuroscience, she is deeply interested in how early experiences and autobiographical memories shape the brain, biological processes, personality, self-schemas (i.e., our core beliefs about ourselves) and our subjective experience. Her Lupina postdoctoral research program seeks to elucidate how individual differences in cognitive profiles influence the encoding, retrieval and recollection of autobiographical memories, and how they contribute to the development and maintenance of self-schemas and real-world behavioural patterns.
Dr. Krystle Shore, Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2024-25 and 2025-26
Dr. Krystle Shore’s research explores the adoption of innovative electronic health records software in Canadian long-term care (LTC). She is investigating how this software, which uses artificial intelligence and global health indicators to generate patient assessments and care plans, is marketed as a solution to ongoing deficiencies in Canada’s LTC system and whether the technology responds to practical LTC staff needs.
Light refreshments will be served. Your registration is appreciated but not required.