International Councils

About Us

The website myhealthywaist.org is produced by the International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk of Université Laval.

This section outlines the key objectives of the International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk, an academic organization based at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada. It features information on Executive Board members and the international academic experts who share their multidisciplinary expertise with the Chair. The section also includes an interactive flowchart of the Chair and a list of its official partners.

Executive Council

Jean-Pierre Després

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec – Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada VITAM – Centre de recherche en santé durable, CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale Québec, Québec, QC, Canada

Frank B. Hu

Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Peter Libby

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Scientific Council

Carlos A. Aguilar Salinas

Direction of Nutrition, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion, Mexico City, Mexico Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico

Benoit Arsenault

Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec – Université Laval, Québec, Canada Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

André C. Carpentier

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Centre de recherche du CHUS, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l’Estrie-Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CIUSSS-CHUS), Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Juliana Chan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China Asia Diabetes Foundation, Hong Kong SAR, China

Vincenzo Di Marzo

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada Centre Nutrition, santé et société (NUTRISS), Institut sur la nutrition et les aliments fonctionnels (INAF), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada École de nutrition, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Naples, Italy

Bruce A. Griffin

Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

Michael D. Jensen

Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

William E. Kraus

Duke University School of Medicine, USA

Ronald M. Krauss

Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, USA

Benoît Lamarche

Centre Nutrition, santé et société (NUTRISS), Institut sur la nutrition et les aliments fonctionnels (INAF), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada École de nutrition, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

Soo Lim

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea

André Marette

Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec – Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez

Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Navarra Health Research Institute (IDISNA), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA CIBER-OBN, Spanish National Institute of Health (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain

Yuji Matsuzawa

Sumitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Paul Poirier

Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec – Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

Robert Ross

Professor within the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

Jacob C. Seidell

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Health Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ulf Smith

Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden

Philippe Gabriel Steg

Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Bichat, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France Faculty of Medicine, Université de Paris, Paris, France INSERM U-1148, Laboratory for Vascular Translational Science, Paris, France

Marja-Riitta Taskinen

Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

André Tchernof

Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec – Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada École de nutrition, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

Luc Van Gaal

Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Nicholas Wareham

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom