Gillian Einstein is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Research Institute as well as the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital, and a member of both the Institute for Life Course & Aging and the Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also the Founder of the Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health at the University of Toronto, The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair of Women’s Brain Health and Aging, and Guest Professor of Gender and Health, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Dr. Einstein was previously a faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology, Duke University where she founded and directed the first year program Exploring the Mind and was the recipient of the Alumni Undergraduate Teaching Award. She has also been a Scientific Review Officer at the US National Institutes of Health, and the Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Women’s Health at the University of Toronto. In 2010 she was a visiting Professor at Harvard University in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has been a member of the Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research from 2010 – 2016 and currently serves as Chair of their Advisory Committee since 2017. She also founded the Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex Research (COGS)
Dr. Einstein’s book, Sex and the Brain: A Reader (MIT Press), is a compilation of classic papers in the field of Hormones and Behavior with critical introductions to each chapter.
- Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair of Women’s Brain Health and Aging.
- Full Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
- Program Lead of the Women, Sex, Gender, and Dementia (WSGD) Program, Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging (CCNA)
- Founder of the Collaborative Graduate Specialization in Women’s Health, University of Toronto
- Founder and Lead of the Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex Research (COGS)
- Chair of Advisory Committee for the Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Member, Canadian Institutes of Health College of Reviewers
- Adjunct Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute
- Adjunct Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital
- Scientific Associate Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Member, Institute for Life Course & Aging, University of Toronto
- Member, Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto
- Guest Professor of Gender and Health, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Recognized and profiled for Psychology’s Feminist Voices, Leader in Women’s Health in Ontario
Gillian Einstein’s Curriculum Vitae
Read an in-depth profile of Gillian Einstein and her research: Toronto neuroscientist tackling science, sex and sexism in women’s health by Kate Allen, Toronto Star, June 3, 2017.