Today’s member profile comes from Ms. Candace Vilhan B.A Psych., E.C.E, C.B.E Behaviourist, Certified Bariatric Educator, and Weight Management Clinic & Bariatric Centre of Excellence at The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario. Ms. Vilhan sits on the Clinical Adults Committee . [...]
Three Easy Ways to Join Obesity Canada in Supporting Obesity Care Week 2021! Obesity Care Week (OCW) is an annual awareness week dedicated to raise awareness, educate and advocate for a better world for people living with obesity. Obesity Care Week [...]
Today’s member profile comes from Dr. Geoff Ball, Geoff DC Ball, PhD, RD is Professor and Associate Chair (Research), Department of Pediatrics of Alberta Health Services Chair in Obesity Research Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, and Director, Pediatric [...]
Today’s member profile comes from Dr. Helena Piccinini-Vallis MD PhD CCFP FCFP, Associate Professor and Clinician Researcher at the Department of Family Medicine, and Cross-appointment with Obstetrics and Gynecology, Interim Research Director, Department of Family Medicine at the Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Dr. Piccinini-Vallis [...]
Venant de Lyon, France, j’ai rejoint l’Université Laval, Québec, en septembre 2019 pour un stage postdoctoral. Après avoir terminé mon diplôme en médecine en psychiatrie et mon doctorat en neurosciences, j’ai souhaité étendre mes études dans le domaine de la nutrition [...]
Today’s member profile comes from Dr. Sara Kirk, PhD, Professor of Health Promotion and Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University, Canada. Dr. Kirk is Chair on the Weight Bias & Stigma Committee. I am a Professor of Health [...]
By Kate Smith, Communication Coordinator, The UpLift Partnership and Sarah Moore, Scholar, the Healthy Populations Institute A researcher at Dalhousie University’s Healthy Populations Institute (HPI) has been busy capturing the experiences of children, families, and communities as they adjust to living with [...]
Today’s member profile comes from Dr. Sarah Nutter, PhD, Assistant Professor of Counselling Psychology, and Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria. Dr. Nutter sits on the Weight Bias & Stigma Committee. Dr. Sarah Nutter is an assistant [...]
Today’s member profile comes from Dr. Michael Piccinini Vallis, Ph.D., R. Psych.., a registered health psychologist based in Halifax, Canada. He is a Health Behaviour Change Consultant and Associate Professor in Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. Dr. Vallis sits on the Clinical [...]
Today’s post was prepared by Claudia Holody in collaboration with the OC-SNP National Executive Team. Claudia is a graduate student at the University of Alberta and the current Communications Coordinator for the OC-SNP National Executive Team. There is no doubt that [...]
