Tamara Cohen, PhD, RD
I understand and appreciate the complex interplay between diet and physical activity and how hard it can be to change and then maintain a lifestyle behaviour, in particular related to diet.
I completed my dietetics training at the School of Nutrition (McGill University).
I currently hold (2018- 2023) the R. Howard Webster Scientist in Nutrition and Lifestyle at the PERFORM Centre, a state-of-the art institute at Concordia University (Loyola Campus).
I am currently the University of British Columbia’s Director of Dietetics and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (January 2020- present).
Education
McGill University, School of Human Nutrition
Doctorate in Nutritional Science
2017
Area of Focus: Childhood Obesity Family-Based Lifestyle Intervention
McGill University, School of Human Nutrition
Masters Thesis, Nutritional Science
2009
Area of Focus: Lifestyle Behaviours during Pregnancy
McGill University, School of Human Nutrition
Dietetic Credentialing
2005
Funding & Awards
- 2021 CIHR Early Career Research Award in Maternal and Child Health
- 2021 UBC Research Excellence Cluster Award
- 2020 SSRHC Insight Development Grant
- 2020 UBC SPARC Hampton Award
- 2019 PERFORM Centre Multidisciplinary Research Award, Concordia University
- 2018 R. Howard Webster Foundation
- 2012 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fredrick Banting and Charles Best Doctoral Research Award (PhD)
- 2013 GREAT Travel Award, School Human Nutrition, McGill University (PhD)
- 2012 Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award, McGill University (PhD)
- 2014 Walter M. Stewart Postgraduate Scholarship in Agriculture, McGill University (PhD)
- 2010 Provost Graduate Fellowship, School of Human Nutrition, McGill University (PhD)
- 2009 Applied Population and Public Health Master’s Research Award from the Canadian Public Health Association, Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Government of Canada (MSc)
- 2005 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Summer Student Award (BSc)