Betty Adewusi, MSc
Project Manager
Hello!
My name is Betty, and I am originally from Nigeria, but I have been privileged to call Canada home since 2013. I lived in Vancouver, British Columbia for 8 years where I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from Simon Fraser University in 2017. During this time, I was exposed to medical research, and my first-ever research project involved the development of a clinical tool to assist physicians in visualizing and automatically estimating the volume of bleeding from CT scans of patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.
I went on to work as a research assistant at Fraser Health Authority, and my continued love for research led me to pursue my Master’s Degree which I completed in 2021 at the SFU ImageTech Lab located in Surrey Memorial Hospital in British Columbia. For my MSc. thesis, I designed and implemented an fMRI experiment to measure cognitive improvement in patients undergoing carotid angioplasty and stenting as a treatment for severe carotid stenosis. This research was supported by scholarships from both the CIHR and BC SUPPORT UNIT.
I have lived in Halifax since 2021, and between 2022-2024, I worked with Nova Scotia Health on a large research project that aims to map out cancer prevention initiatives in Atlantic Canada. Currently, I am working as a Project Manager for the OPTIMISING ACCESS project, led by Dr. Noreen Kamal. In this project, we aim to create a national acute stroke registry that will track and aid improvement in access to and delivery of life-saving endovascular treatment for all stroke patients across Canada.