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Thursday, October 27, 2016
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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Toronto: Social Jet Lag, Sleep and Childhood Obesity
- 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
- Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Square, Toronto, Ont.
- UPDATE - Room is now Regatta
Jennifer McGrath, Concordia’s inaugural PERFORM Chair in Childhood Preventative Health and Data Science, will discuss how televisions and computer tablets cause social jet-lag, which lead to increased weight gain and obesity in children and adolescents.
A networking cocktail will follow with Bram Freedman, Concordia's vice-president, Advancement and External Relations.
Complimentary for you and your guest | Business attire
To register by phone, call 1-888-777-3330.
Information: lina.uberti@concordia.ca
Jennifer McGrath, pictured here speaking at the Chancellor's Builders Dinner, is among the top five per cent of funded researchers in Canada.
Jennifer McGrath is an Associate Professor at Concordia University and the PERFORM Chair in Childhood Preventative Health and Data Science.
Her innovative, interdisciplinary approach to untangling social determinants of child health inequalities has led to new discoveries about the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease precursors, and their socioeconomic gradient, during childhood and adolescence.
She has made compelling insights into pediatric sleep; autonomic and endocrine dysregulation; and secondhand smoke and nicotine-dependence. She has also pioneered rigorous pediatric ambulatory measurement standards and advocates for reproducibility of science through open-source data science methods.
Her funding success is an achievement in itself –– more than $11.3 million since she first arrived at Concordia in 2004. McGrath is the principal investigator of four grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) worth over $7 million in funding, and a co-investigator of six other grants totalling over $3 million –– placing her in Canada’s top five per cent of funded researchers.