Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput
Junior Research Chair
613-737-7600 x3683
jpchaput@cheo.on.ca

Position and Rank

• Junior Research Chair, CHEO Research Institute
• Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
• Cross-Appointed to the School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

Degrees and Certifications

• Postdoctorate in Physiology (University of Copenhagen)
• Ph.D. in Kinesiology (Laval University)
• M.Sc. in Kinanthropology (University of Sherbrooke)
• B.Sc. in Biotechnology (University of Sherbrooke)

Awards

• Canadian Obesity Network New Investigator Award, 2nd National Obesity Summit, Montreal, Canada ($500)
• IASO New Investigator Award Finalist, 2010 International Congress on Obesity, Stockholm, Sweden
• AELIES Student Travel Award for the NAASO 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana ($500)
• Canadian Obesity Network Student Travel Award for the Canadian Society for Clinical Nutrition 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting in Winnipeg, Canada ($500)
• AELIES Student Travel Award for the ICO 2006 Scientific Meeting held in Sydney, Australia ($900)
• Laval University Student Travel Award for a 2006 internship in Uganda, East Africa ($2,000)
• Ethan Sims Young Investigator Award, NAASO 2005 Annual Scientific Meeting, Vancouver, Canada ($1,000)

Research Interests

Obesity; Sleep; Nutrition; Physical Activity; Stress; Energy Balance; Pharmacotherapy

Projects in Progress

• Sedentary time and markers of cardiometabolic risk in children and youth: a randomized crossover study (CHEO Research Institute)
• Calibrating early lifestyles to manage obesity: a health and education practitioner intervention approach (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Effects of impaired sleep on energy balance: a randomized crossover study in adolescents (Nordea Foundation)
• Sleep and obesity in children and adolescents: identifying pathogenic pathways (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)

Biography

Dr. Chaput is a Junior Research Chair in Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Copenhagen in 2010 under the guidance of Prof. Arne Astrup, ensuring the research group’s state-of-the-art scientific competence in relation to sleep physiology and mental stress. He has a background in physiology and graduated from Laval University (Quebec City) in 2008, where he was under the supervision of Prof. Angelo Tremblay. He is particularly interested in new determinants of obesity and has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific articles, and over 60 other publications such as textbook chapters, scientific abstracts, reviews and letters.

Other Tidbits

Jean-Philippe has been a personalized trainer for 6 years and has run a couple of half marathons. He enjoys traveling around the world and has lived in Denmark for 2 years.