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 Biology Conference (Boston), April, 2013. Aufreiter S, Colapinto CK, Tremblay MS, Pfeiffer CM, O’Con…

HALO PhD student Cynthia Colapinto authored the paper, “Prevalence and correlates of folic acid supplement use in Canada,” which was published today in the Statistics Canada flagship journal Health Reports. HALO Director Dr. Mark Tremblay was also an author on the paper. Citation details are below. Cynthia K. Colapinto, Deborah L. O’Connor, Lise Dubois, Mark S. Tremblay. Prevalence and correlates of folic acid supplement use in Canada. Sta…

…ifferences between folic acid supplement users and nonusers. WCBA not taking folic acid supplements were less likely to achieve a RBC folate concentration ≥906 nmol·L(-1) compared with folic acid supplement users (odds ratio, 0.47; 95% confidence interval, 0.24, 0.92). Twenty-five percent of WCBA reported folic acid supplement use, and there was a higher percentage of folic acid supplement users in the highest income group. Folic acid supplement…

Ms. Cynthia Colapinto Ph.D. Candidate colapinto@uottawa.ca Degrees and Professional Designations: Registered Dietitian (College of Dietitians of Ontario) Masters of Science in Applied Human Nutrition (Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax) Dietetic Internship (St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto) Bachelor of Science in Nutrition (Acadia University, Wolfville, NS) Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology (McMaster University, Hamilton) Awards:…

Cynthia Colapinto, a PhD student with HALO, was recently appointed as a Council Member for District 4, South Western by the College of Dietitians of Ontario. From the College’s website: Cynthia was appointed by Council as the Council Member for District 4. She is a PhD candidate in Population Health at the University of Ottawa. She is also completing a Diploma with the Ontario Training Centre in Health Services and Policy Research. She gra…

Cynthia Colapinto, a Ph.D. candidate with the Research Institute’s Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO), is the recipient of the 2010 Dietitians of Canada Graduate Student Award sponsored by McCain Foods for her dissertation research which aims to examine the folate status of Canadians. This award recognizes academic excellence and contributions to the dietetic profession. The award ceremony was held at the Dietitians of Canad…

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HALO PhD students Stephanie Prince Ware, Cynthia Colapinto and Megan Carter recently attended and made presentations at the World Epidemiology Congress held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from August 7-11, 2011. Details about the presentations are below: Stephanie Prince Ware made an oral presentation: SA Prince Ware, EA Kristjansson, K Russell, JM Billette, A Ali, M Sawada, MS Tremblay, D Prud’homme. Is it where you live or who you are that is…

…36(2):193-194, 2012. LeBlanc AG, Spence JC, Carson V, Connor Gorber S, Dillman C, Janssen I, Kho ME, Stearns J, Timmons BW, Tremblay MS. Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health indicators in the early years (aged 0-4 years). Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism 37:753-772, 2012. Longmuir PE, Banks L, McCrindle BW. Cross-sectional study of motor development among children after the Fontan procedure. Cardiology in the Young 22:…

Dr. Gary Goldfield, a Clinical Scientist with HALO, and PhD candidate Cynthia Colapinto recently published a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, “Relative Reinforcing Value of Energy-dense Snack Foods In Overweight and Obese Adults.” Full citation details are below: Goldfield GS, Lumb AB, Colapinto CK. Relative Reinforcing Value of Energy-dense Snack Foods In Overweight and Obese Adults. Can J Diet Pr…