Dr. Adamo is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics and the Faculty of Medicine (Pediatrics) at the University of Ottawa. She is also a founding member of the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at the CHEO RI. Dr. Adamo has a multidisciplinary background and her research program, Prevention in the Early Years, focuses on early lifestyle intervention and upstream prevention of childhood obesity. She previously held a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award from the Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health and is a previous recipient of the Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation for her work on ‘Tackling Childhood Obesity, starting with MOM’. More recently, she was profiled as one of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology’s (CSEP) most notable women, who leads a diverse interdisciplinary research program focusing on the ‘early years’ continuum.
Dr. Adamo’s research team continues to explore the impact of healthy active living during key phases of growth, development and determination of long-term health (pregnancy/intrauterine, preschool and elementary school).