Claude Bouchard (born 1939) is Professor and the John W. Barton, Sr. Endowed Chair in Genetics and Nutrition at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC), where he is also the Director of the Human Genomics Laboratory. He is known for his research on the role of genetics in obesity and in the process of adaptation to regular physical activity.[1][2][3] He was president of the Obesity Society in 1991–92.[4]
Claude Bouchard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1939 (age 84–85) Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Education | Laval University University of Oregon University of Texas at Austin |
| Known for | Obesity Exercise science |
| Awards | Membership in the Order of Canada (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physiology |
| Institutions | Laval University Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
| Thesis | Univariate and Multivariate Genetic Analysis of Anthropometric and Physique Characteristics of French Canadian Families (1977) |
Biography edit
Born in 1939 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada,[5] Bouchard graduated from Laval University with a B.P.Ed degree in 1962. He received his M.Sc. in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon the following year before doing postgraduate work at the University of Cologne and the German Sport University Cologne in Germany for two years (1963–65). In 1977, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, after which he completed his postdoc at the University of Montreal in the same year. In 1999, after teaching kinesiology at Laval University for over thirty years, he joined the faculty of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, where he was the Executive Director and George A. Bray Chair in Nutrition until 2010.[6]
Honors and awards edit
Bouchard has been a fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium since 1996. He became an Officer of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium in 1994, a member of the Order of Canada in 2001, and a Chevalier in the Ordre National du Quebec in 2005. In 2002, he received the Honor Award from the American College of Sports Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4] In 2016, the Louisiana State University (LSU) Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to award him a Boyd Professorship, the most prestigious title that can be awarded to professors at LSU.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Claude Bouchard, Ph.D". Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ Kolata, Gina (1990-05-24). "Where Fat Is Problem, Heredity Is the Answer, Studies Find". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ Kolata, Gina (2002-06-23). "Weights Build Muscles, But Not the Manly Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ a b "Claude Bouchard". American Physiological Society. Archived from the original on 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ Stern, Judith S.; Kazaks, Alexandra (2015-10-13). Obesity: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. p. 159. ISBN 9781440838057.
- ^ "Claude Bouchard CV" (PDF). American Physiological Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Pennington Biomedical's Claude Bouchard Named an LSU Boyd Professor". Louisiana State University (Press release). 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
External links edit
- Faculty page at PBRC website
- Claude Bouchard publications indexed by Google Scholar