Maya started volunteering in the CAP Lab as a Research Assistant in August 2017; since January 2018 she began working as a part-time Research Assistant in the lab. Maya graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelors of Mathematics majoring in both Actuarial Science and Statistics. During her undergraduate degree she worked as a Research Co-op Student in a Bioinformatics lab investigating paediatric cancer. Since graduating, Maya has become interested in Clinical Psychology and excited by the duality of working with people and performing research. She is currently taking a certificate in Psychology with the hopes of applying to graduate school in Clinical Psychology.

Selected Publications:
Schonbach M., Danesh A., Bruce J., Woodburn T., Davidsen T., Hermida L., Gesuwan P., Guidry-Auvil J., Hampton O., Wheeler D., Gastier-Foster J., Smith M., Gerhard D., Maris J., Reynolds P., Pugh T. Fidelity of subclonal representation in human neuroblastoma-derived cell line and patient-derived xenograft models: A report from the NCI-TARGET project. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015; 75(15 Suppl): Abstract nr 484. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-484

Zhu, Y., Schonbach, M., Coffman, D. L., Williams, J. S. (2015, March). Variable Selection for Propensity Score Estimation via Balancing Covariates [Letter to the editor]. Epidemiology, 26(2), p e14–e15. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000237