Breaking Down Barriers to Physical Activity Before and After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

Session Objectives:

To discuss the importance to consider physical activity (PA) barriers before and after bariatric surgery
To describe the main PA barriers before and after bariatric surgery
To discuss how to manage PA barriers

Speaker

Dr. Aurélie Baillot, PhD.

Professeure École interdisciplinaire de santé, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Professeure auxiliaire à l’École des sciences de l’activité physique, Université d’Ottawa
Directrice du Laboratoire de recherche collaborative en obésité et vie active
Université du Québec en Outaouais

Aurélie Baillot, is currently an associate professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais in the École interdisciplinaire de santé, and is recipient of salary awards from the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (FRQ-S)(Junior II). She obtained her PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Orléans (France) in 2010 and completed two postdoctoral training in the Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (JP Després) and in the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke Research Center (MF Langlois). His research interests focus on physical activity in individuals with severe obesity. His main research activities aimed to optimize the management of physical activity to improve the long-term physical and mental health of individuals with severe obesity.