Co-Chair
 

Andrea R. Josse, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
York University

Dr. Andrea Josse is an assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, at York University (Toronto). She is a nutritional scientist and exercise physiologist whose research area combines human nutrition and exercise science in the context of both human health promotion and chronic disease prevention. Dr. Josse received her doctoral degree in exercise physiology and nutrition from the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON). She then completed a CIHR- and Canadian Diabetes Association-funded postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The University of Toronto. Her current human research program spans 2 main areas, one focusing on longer-term lifestyle modification intervention strategies that include the provision of protein and dairy foods to improve in body composition, body weight, bone health and cardiometabolic outcomes. The other focusing on the immediate/short-term physiological responses following the consumption of different post-exercise wholefoods, nutritional supplements and individual nutrients on bone metabolism and inflammation to improve exercise recovery and musculoskeletal health. Dr. Josse has published 68 peer-reviewed papers, and herself or her trainees have presented 77 abstracts at national/international conferences. Her research program is supported by a variety of government and organization funding sources. Dr. Josse is highly committed to supporting trainee development in the areas of basic and applied human nutrition and exercise physiology in both a sport/exercise performance and health context as well as in a disease risk reduction/clinical context. As such, she works closely with registered dietitians and personal trainers in her research studies.