Postdoctoral Fellows Bios

Dr. Malakeh Malekzadeh
Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Saija Kontulainen

Research Theme:
Healthy aging and management of chronic conditions.

Research Interests:
Dr. Malekzadeh has a background in Medical Physics. Her interest in improving bone health diagnosis in older adults through medical imaging will continue throughout her postdoctoral fellowship study. Her current project is to investigate changes of bone/muscle tissues in a bed rest-inactivity study using multimodal imaging (X-ray-based modalities and MRI).

Dr. Zeinab Hosseini
Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Phil Chilibeck

Research Theme:
Healthy aging and management of chronic conditions.

Research Interests:
Dr. Hosseini has a background in behavioural and social epidemiology. She is interested in aging research especially management of chronic diseases in older adults using non-pharmaceutical interventions. She wasawarded the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Fellowship to understand the “safety and efficacy of high-intensity exercises in older people with low bone mass”.