Gésine Alders, PhD

Experience

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  University of Regensburg

  Jan 1998 - Feb 2000

  Research Assistant

  Duties included training research assistants in the administration and scoring of standard and experimental neuropsychological tests; participating in the administration and scoring of neuropsychological tests and/or handwriting samples administered as part the following studies/projects: the examination of handwriting in patients with Parkinson's disease, cognition in first order relatives of patients with Parkinson's disease, colour vision and cognition in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cognition in patients with Major Depressive Disorder, cognition in patients with alcoholism in a recovery program, collection of healthy comparison participant data for the Regensburger Verbal Fluency Test. Show less

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  Universitätsklinikum Würzburg

  Oct 1999 - Nov 2002

  Research Assistant - Kompetenznetz Parkinson

  Coordinating data collection for the neuropsychological assessment of patients with Parkinson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, or corticobasal degeneration included in the https://www.kompetenznetz-parkinson.de study across Germany. Duties also included administration and scoring of neuropsychological tests, preparation of a report on the testing results for submission to the participants and their family doctors, data entry, data cleaning, and qualitative data analysis (SPSS), assisted in writing of publications, preparation of posters for presentation at conferences. Show less

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  Health Promotion Research

  Jul 2003 - Jan 2005

  Senior Research Associate

  Duties included hiring and training research assistants, writing grant applications and research ethics board applications, coordinating data collection and data entry, quantitative data analysis (SPSS), preparation of data for presentation to stake holders, presenting study results to stake holders in private industry and the pharmaceutical industry.

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  The Hospital for Sick Children

  Oct 2005 - Apr 2006

  Clinical Research Associate

  Administering and scoring of a range of neuropsychological tests in an adult population with spina bifida and healthy comparison participants, preparation of summary reports for participants.

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  St. Michael's Hospital

  Sept 2006 - Aug 2007

  Research Coordinator - Gastroenterology

  Responsibilities included recruiting patients for participation in clinical trials, data collection, data entry, data analysis, assisting with preparation of poster presentations, completing ethics applications, and assisting with grant writing, organizing a focus group and providing a qualitative summary.

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  Western University

  Sept 2007 - Apr 2008

  Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Research Methods

  - Leading weekly tutorials on the art of researching, preparing and writing an APA style research paper- Teaching rudimentary introduction to statistics in SPSS- Assisting students with study design- Marking research papers

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  Western University

  Aug 2008 - Apr 2009

  Course Coordinator - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology

  - Preparing course content and preparing power point presentations, quizzes, and evaluation forms for Teaching Assistants for 10 course sections- Liaising with Teaching Assistants and Course Instructors- Assisting with plagiarism queries

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  GoodLife Fitness

  Dec 2008 - Mar 2022

  Group Fitness Instructor

  Certified Group Fitness Instructor for BodyPump, BodyAttack, CXWORX, Newbody, Water in Motion, Jillian Michaels Body Shred, STRONG by Zumba. I continue to maintain my Fitness Instructor Specialist (canfitpro) certification and instruct freestyle group fitness classes.

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  Western University

  Oct 2010 - Aug 2014

  Research Coordinator & Data Analyst

  Research coordination and data analysis of data collected at multiple children's mental health agencies as part of a study examining patterns of service utilization in children's mental health care using administrative data. This included hiring and training research assistants, assisting with questionnaire design, data entry, data cleaning, qualitative data analysis (SPSS and Latent Gold), establishing and checking inter-rater reliability, preparing written documents and power point presentations for stake holders, assisting with preparation of papers for publication, assisting with writing of grant submissions, preparing and completing research ethics applications. Show less

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  McMaster University

  Sept 2014 - Dec 2014

  Teaching Assistant - Human Health & Disease

  Guiding tutorial sections in preparing career plans and exploring career paths in the field of Life Sciences, assistance with essay writing, marking of essays and assignments, and grading of poster presentations.

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  Western University

  Oct 2014 - Nov 2016

  Research Associate

  Analysis of data collected at multiple children's mental health agencies as part of a study examining patterns of service utilization in children's mental health care using administrative data. This included qualitative data analysis (SPSS and Latent Gold), preparing written documents and power point presentations for stake holders, assisting with preparation of papers for publication, completing and submitting study updates to the research ethics board.

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  McMaster University

  Sept 2015 - May 2018

  Teaching Assistant - Meeting of the MiNDS Journal Club

  Facilitate Journal Club meetings for graduate students in the McMaster Neuroscience Program. Guide discussions of papers related to upcoming colloquium presentations given by visiting scientists.

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  McMaster Institute for Research on Aging

  Mar 2020 - now

  Research Coordinator II
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  McMaster University

  Jan 2023 - now

  Sessional Instructor

  LIFESCI 4XX3 Seminar Course: Synapse