Congratulations to Cynthia Colapinto who was involved in two presentations at the Experimental Biology Conference, held in Boston on April 20-24. The presentation authors and titles are below:

Colapinto CK, Tremblay MS, Aufreiter S, Bushnik T, Pfeiffer CM, O’Connor DL. A comparison of American and Canadian RBC folate concentrations. Experimental… [read more]

Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput was in Mississauga on Monday and Tuesday attending Food & Consumer Products of Canada’s event, Thinking Outside the Box…Childhood Obesity. Dr. Chaput delivered a lecture titled, “The Obesogenic Environment: The Multiple Psycho-Social/ Environmental Factors that Contribute to Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adults”.
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On Saturday, March 14, Dr. Kristi Adamo (Research Scientist) and Kendra Brett (PhD Candidate) presented their research at the 7th International DIP Symposium on Diabetes, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome and Pregnancy in Florence, Italy.  Kristi’s poster presentation, examining the physical activity levels in pregnant women, was based on data from her… [read more]

Halo Director Professor Mark Tremblay delivered two keynote addresses on March 21 at the Chatham-Kent Healthy Communities Forum.
His presentations titled “More Active, More Often: Assessments, Audits, and Accountability – measure to make a difference!” and “Making Movement a Movement” were delivered to over 100 public health, education and recreation… [read more]

Dr. Vincent Onywera and Dr. Mark Tremblay participated and presented a paper at the 5th East Africa Pre-Games International Conference held at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania between February 6-8, 2013. The title of their presentation was, “Can we address the emerging physical activity transition challenge in order… [read more]

HALO Director Mark Tremblay delivered the closing keynote address at the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association Public Education Symposium in Toronto on February 2nd. His presentation titled, “Making Movement a Movement – An Urgent Call for Action,” challenged Ontario’s education leaders to think outside the box when developing strategies to… [read more]

Dr. Mark Tremblay delivered an invited presentation titled “Healthy Active Living in the Early Years (aged 0-4 years)” at the International Life Sciences Institute annual meeting in Miami Florida on January 21.
HALO researchers Gary Goldfield, Allana LeBlanc and Kristi Adamo were coauthors on the presentation. The presentation discussed the… [read more]

Dr. Pat Longmuir was invited to present her research on physical activity for children with heart problems to the Jubilee Women’s Group on January 9, 2013. Members of the group were particularly interested in the studies that investigated why children with heart problems are very inactive and her work to… [read more]

Master’s student Mike Borghese made a presentation at Heritage Public School in Navan, Ontario on November 29th. Mike informed parents of the Canadian Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for Children and Youth along with Ottawa Public Health for an hour-long presentation. Parents had a lot of questions and from… [read more]

On November 22 Professor Mark Tremblay delivered an invited presentation at the University of Ottawa Mini Medical School. His talk was titled “Obesity: The inevitable consequence of modern living?” and is available through the Mini Medical School website.… [read more]