Claude Bouchard (born 1939) is Professor and the John W. Barton, Sr. Endowed Chair in Genetics and Nutrition at

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(PBRC), where he is also the Director of the Human Genomics Laboratory. He is known for his research on the role of

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and in the process of adaptation to regular

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. He was president of the

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in 1991–92.

Biography

Born in 1939 in

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, Canada, Bouchard graduated from

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with a B.P.Ed degree in 1962. He received his M.Sc. in

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from the

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the following year before doing

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work at the

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and the

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for two years (1963–65). In 1977, he received his

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from the

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, after which he completed his

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at the

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in the same year. In 1999, after teaching

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at Laval University for over thirty years, he joined the faculty of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, where he was the Executive Director and

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Chair in Nutrition until 2010.

Honors and awards

Bouchard has been a fellow of the

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since 1996. He became an Officer of the

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of Belgium in 1994, a member of the

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in 2001, and a Chevalier in the Ordre National du Quebec in 2005. In 2002, he received the Honor Award from the

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. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the

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, the Obesity Society, the

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, and the

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. 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.

References

External links

Faculty page
at PBRC website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouchard, Claude Living people 1939 births Obesity researchers People from Quebec City Université Laval alumni Exercise physiologists Louisiana State University faculty University of Oregon alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Education alumni Academic staff of Université Laval Officers of the Order of Leopold II Members of the Order of Canada Members of the National Order of Quebec Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Canadian physiologists