Rate My Professor Gillian Hanley

Dr. Gillian Hanley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Population-Based Gynecologic and Perinatal Outcomes and serves as Associate Co-Head, Research in her department as well as Executive Director of the Women's Health Research Institute. Dr. Hanley completed her BSc with combined honours in Biology and Economics at Dalhousie University, her MA in Economics with a concentration in health economics at McMaster University, and her PhD in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, with training in epidemiology and health services research.

Her research program leverages population-based administrative data to advance understanding of ovarian cancer prevention and survivorship as well as reproductive mental health and perinatal pharmacoepidemiology. She has examined the safety, cost-effectiveness, and cancer-risk reduction associated with opportunistic salpingectomy and contributed to national and international clinical practice guidelines on this approach. Dr. Hanley also investigates maternal, infant, and child outcomes following exposure to psychotropic medications during pregnancy, working to distinguish medication effects from those of perinatal mental illness. Her work has been supported by awards including an MSFHR Scholar Award and VCHRI Innovation and Translational Research Awards.