Claude Bouchard
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Exercise science
Claude Bouchard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1939 (age 86–87) 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) |
Claude Bouchard CM CQ (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]
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]
