Congratulations to our colleague from the IMPACTS Laboratory, Laurence Tanguay, who has successfully completed the master’s research programme in health sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke’s Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick. Laurence, who is also a registered dietitian and nutritionist, was awarded the prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research Graduate Scholarship for her project entitled ‘Modélisation de l’impact de changements d’habitudes de vie sur la mortalité par cancers et par maladies cardiovasculaires au Canada ’. The project, under the direction of Professors Mathieu Bélanger and Said Mekari, estimated that by changing some very simple lifestyle habits, it would be realistic to reduce the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer in Canada by 5,000 per year. While you wait for the article to be published, you can consult her dissertation on Savoir UdeS: https://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/21968

Photo: Professor Nathalie Rivard, Vice-Dean of Graduate Studies, Research and Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, and Laurence Tanguay