Robert-paul Juster MSc, PhD

Robert-Paul Juster is the Director of the Center on Sex*Gender, Allostasis, and Resilience (CESAR) situated at the Research Center of the Montreal Mental Health University Institute. Dr. Juster is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Montreal and holds a CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair. Dr. Juster completed his graduate studies in Psychology at Concordia University (BSc) and Neuroscience at McGill University (MSc, Ph.D.) before completing a Post-Doctoral fellowship in Psychiatry at Columbia University.

Dr. Juster’s research focuses on teasing apart the role of biological sex and socio-cultural gender in explaining pathways that render us vulnerable or resilient to stress-related disease. Dr. Juster has become an expert in the measurement of allostatic load, the ‘wear and tear’ of chronic stress, and unhealthy behaviors that he measures with biomarkers collected from saliva and blood. Robert-Paul has led research on understanding how stigma, stress, and strain influence the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and more recently transgender individuals. In his newly launched laboratory CESAR, he and his students aim to further advance sex/gender and allostatic load research among diverse populations such as the LGBT community, workers, and psychiatric patients.