Claude Bouchard

Prof. Bouchard will present a lecture entitled “Importance of Exercise Genomics for Human Variation in Health and Performance".
 
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Claude Bouchard is the Executive Director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the George A. Bray Chair in Nutrition. He holds a B.Ped. (Laval), a M.Sc. (University of Oregon, Eugene) in exercise physiology and a Ph.D. (University of Texas, Austin) in population genetics. His research deals with the genetics of adaptation to exercise and to nutritional interventions as well as the genetics of obesity and its co-morbidities. He has authored and coauthored several books and more than 900 scientific papers. Among other awards, he was the recipient of the Honor Award from the Canadian Association of Sport Sciences in 1988, a Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine in 1992 and the Honor Award in 2002, the Benjamin Delessert Award in nutrition from France in 1993,  Belgium award of Officer of the Order of Leopold II in 1994, the Willendorf Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity in 1994, the Sandoz Award from the Canadian Atherosclerosis Society in 1996, the Albert Creff Award in Nutrition of the National Academy of Medicine of France in 1997, the TOPS award in 1998  and the Friends of Albert J. Stunkard Award in 2004 from the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and the George A. Bray Founders Award from The Obesity Society in 2008, the W. Henry Sebrell Award from the Weight Watchers Foundation in 1999, and of a Honoris Causa Doctorate in Science from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1998.  He is a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium since 1996, and was the Leon Mow Visiting Professor at the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne in 1998.  In 2001, he became a member of the Order of Canada as well as Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University.   In 2003 he received the Alumnus of the Year Award from Laval University.  Dr. Bouchard became a Knight in the Ordre National du Quebec in 2005 and also received the 2005 Earle W. Crampton Award in Nutrition from McGill University that same year.  Dr. Bouchard is past president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and the immediate past president of the International Association for the Study of Obesity.  Prior to coming to Pennington, he held the Donald B. Brown Research Chair on Obesity at Laval University where he was the Director of the Physical Activity Sciences Laboratory for about 20 years.   He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Society of Nutrition, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  His research has been funded by various agencies in Canada and the USA, but mainly by the National Institutes of Health.  

January 2009