Danielle Bouchard Receives University Research Scholar Award
Author: Linda OBrien
Posted on Mar 22, 2019
Category: Awards
Dr. Bouchard has an undergrad in Physical Education from the Université de Moncton, a MSc. from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Exercise Sciences and a Ph.D from the Université de Sherbrooke in Gerontology. She completed two post-doctoral training. The first one in Epidemiology at Queen’s University and the second one in Endocrinology at the Université de Sherbrooke. The main focus of her research relates to clinical exercise physiology to evaluate the impact of regular exercise on chronic conditions, especially in people living with obesity and older adults.
She has contributed to research in several ways since she started her academic career in 2011, despite taking two academic years for parental leave. She is known in her field locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Bouchard is already the author of over 50 research papers and is regularly invited to speak at international conferences. As demonstrated in her curriculum vitae, she has demonstrated a consistent track record of attaining research funding at the universities where she has worked. As both a principle and co-investigator, she has successfully secured funding totaling $3,122,626 in the past seven years, with 70% of it since arriving at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in 2015.
Dr. Bouchard supports graduate students and undergraduate students. Since she started her career as an academic in 2011, she has been conducting 11 directed studies courses with undergraduate students, another 10 with graduate students, and she has supervised five honours students. At the graduate level, eight students have completed degrees under her supervision, including one PhD. Currently, she is supervising two MSc students and a PhD student; she will begin overseeing one additional master students and one doctoral student in the fall semester. Overall, since 2011, she supervised a ratio of 1.85 graduate students per year and 2.28 undergraduate students per year. Out of her seven MSc students that graduated under her supervision, they took an average of 1.9 years to complete their degree. Another fact that she is proud of is that out of the 13 graduate students she had the pleasure to supervise or currently supervising, 69% of them obtained external funding through peer-review competitions.
Dr. Bouchard enjoys sharing her research in the scientific and general community. Her work was presented across the globe in 107 occasions in a variety of scientific meetings. When possible, she offers her time for media interviews or local presentations. She has been able to speak in the media for over 50 occasions.
Because of her background in physical education, she also likes to be involved in the school system. She currently sits on the Anglophone School District Health Advisory Committee, and she also coaches the local Timbits soccer team.
Most of the research studies that she leads are related to exercise and health. She likes to find ways to encourage people who are currently inactive, to increase their physical activity level. She wants to improve their health, mostly functional health, but also metabolic or social health.