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Name of the PI(s) Organization/Agency Title of Project Amount (Year) Adamo W. Garfield Weston Foundation The effects of obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) on placental lipid transport and fetal growth $20,000 (2012) Adamo CIHR Activity Begins in Childhood (ABC)- a randomized controlled trial to inspire healthy active behaviour in preschoolers $153,000 (2012-2014) Adamo CIHR – INMD brid…

Dr. Kristi Adamo was interviewed by CTV Ottawa News yesterday about her maternal obesity management (MOM) study that looks at the impact of too much weight gain during pregancy on the health of the baby. From the article: [Dr. Adamo] says women who gain too much weight during pregnancy are at risk of gestational diabetes and high blood pressure. And now her study shows an apparent link between the mom’s weight gain and the baby’s risk for…

Dr. Kristi Adamo (Research Scientist) was recently interviewed by CBC News for an article titled, “Obesity odds may be higher for children in daycare“. The article discusses a new research study, which reports higher levels of obesity among children attending daycare. From the article: All daycares aren’t created equal when it comes to nutritional quality and physical activity, said Kristi Adamo, a research scientist at the Chi…

Dr. Kristi Adamo (Research Scientist) provided a commentary yesterday to CBC news on a recent paper on how working late in pregnancy may be related to subsequent birth weight.  From the article: Babies born to women who work later in pregnancy tend to be lighter than those whose mothers quit sooner, say researchers who compared the effect to smoking. … “In my opinion, healthful maternal behaviours trump all else,” Adamo said. &…

Dr. Kristi Adamo Research Scientist 613-737-7600 x4190 kadamo@cheo.on.ca Education, Credentials, Academic appointments MSc Faculty of Human Biology & Nutritional Sciences; University of Guelph Visiting scholar- Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre & August Krogh Institute, Denmark (1997) PhD Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Visiting scholar – Joslin Diabetes Centre- Harvard Medi…

Dr. Kristi Adamo was one of the Canadian faculty members at the International Graduate Course in Clinical & Exercise Physiology held at Auberge Duchesnay in Ste-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Quebec.  This 1-week intensive advanced graduate-level course (view syllabus) brings together faculty and students from Canadian and European Universities focusing on topics in exercise and clinical physiology. This integrative research-based course…

Dr. Kristi Adamo, a Research Scientist with HALO, was successful in two recent CIHR grant competitions. Details of the funded grants are below: Activity Begins in Childhood- a randomized controlled trial to inspire healthy active behaviour in preschoolers Principal Investigator: Kristi Adamo Co-investigators: Gary Goldfield, Rachel Colley, PJ Naylor (Victoria), Vivienne Temple (Victoria), Nick Barrowman Operating Grant: Inst of Nutrition, Meta…

Congratulations to Dr. Kristi Adamo for being recently awarded one of the 2 W. Garfield Weston Foundation Awards for her project, Do built environment neighborhood characteristics predict gestational weight gain? The $18,000 grant will help her and her team with their research project. More details on the project are available below. Grant/Award: The W. Garfield Weston Foundation Award in Obesity and Reproductive Health. (This project is a colla…

At the 3rd Canadian Obesity Summit, which was held in Vancouver from May 1-4, HALO researchers made a total of 17 poster and oral presentations of their research. Details of the posters and presentations are below. Posters Kevin Belanger, Peter Breithaupt, Zachary Ferraro, Nick Barrowman, Jane Rutherford, Stasia Hadjiyannakis, Rachel Colley. Do Obese Children Perceive Submaximal and Maximal Exertion Differently? Jean-Philippe Chaput, Michael Bo…