The David C. W. Lau Lectureship: Nutrition in Obesity

Speaker

Johane P. Allard, FRCPC, MD

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist
Division of Clinical Investigation & Human Physiology
Toronto General Research Institute
Toronto General Hospital 

Dr. Johane P. Allard is Staff Gastroenterologist at the University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is also crossed-appointed to the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences and School of Graduate Studies and Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute. Her research focus on nutrition and gastrointestinal disorders, metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), obesity and bariatric surgery. She is leading a research program on intestinal microbiome related to MASLD/Metabolic Syndrome and bariatric patients, funded by CIHR, ACG and CLF. She has over 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Dr Allard was the Department Director of Gastroenterology (2006-2018) at the University of Toronto, the chair of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeon Examining Board in Gastroenterology (2008-2012), the Division Head at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (2009-2014) and a co-founder of the Canadian Society of Clinical Nutrition now called Canadian Nutrition Society.