A world-renowned researcher in healthy living and obesity, Dr. Tremblay holds two undergraduate degrees (BComm - Sports Administration, BPHE) from Laurentian University. He received his MSc and PhD from the University of Toronto’s Department of Community Health where he specialized in exercise science. Currently, Dr. Tremblay is the Director of Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research (HALO) at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in addition to serving as a Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. His 2010 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card garnered national attention and indicated less than half of Canadian children under the age of five get enough regular physical activity as part of their daily lives. It also gave Canadian children a failing grade for spending too much time in front of television and computer screens. Some children spend as much as six hours per day in front of a screen of some type.
2010 FHS Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Mark TremblayCanada's Inactive Kids: An Urgent Call to Action
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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. He 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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