Mark Tremblay (Canada)

Session

Focused symposium:  Global Physical Activity Transitions: Emerging Measurement and Therapeutic Opportunity? (Convenor)

Biography

Dr. Tremblay has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Sports Administration and a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education degree from Laurentian University. His graduate training was from the University of Toronto where he obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine with a specialty in exercise science. Dr. Tremblay is the Director of Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research (HALO) at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Dr. Tremblay is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, a Fellow of The Obesity Society, former Dean of Kinesiology at the University of Saskatchewan and is currently the Chief Scientific Officer of Active Healthy Kids Canada. Dr. Tremblay was the Scientific Director for the Canadian Health Measures Survey currently being conducted by Statistics Canada and currently Chairs its Expert Advisory Committee. Dr. Tremblay has published extensively in the areas of childhood obesity, physical activity measurement, exercise physiology and exercise endocrinology.

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