Maria B Margo and Alysha L Deslippe and Erica McFarland and Hector Silva and Trisha C Baluyot and Angela S Alberga and Tamara R Cohen
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.9165001 / 2026
Appetite
Smith, M. and Aghayan, M. and Little, J. and Prior, J.C. and Cohen, T.R. and Soon, Z. and Bomide, H. and Purcell, S.
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Alysha L. Deslippe and Anat Gesser-Edelsburg and Kim L. Lavoie and Simon L. Bacon and Tamara R. Cohen
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Advanced Exercise and Health Science
Jessica A.L. Tucker and Seth F. McCarthy and Derek P.D. Bornath and Tamara R. Cohen and Philip J. Medeiros and Tom J. Hazell
DOI: 10.1016/j.aehs.2025.02.00303 / 2025
Medrxiv
Tosefsky, K. and Lam, J.S.T. and Wang, Y.N. and Keymanesh, S. and Kuan, A.J. and Metcalfe-Roach, A. and Cirstea, M.S. and Sacheli, M.A. and Finlay, B.B. and Cohen, T.R. and Appel-Cresswell, S.
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Sage, O. and Wang, F. and DiAngelo, C. and Marsden, S. and Faustini, C. and Grant, S. and Cohen, T.R.
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Smith, M. and Aghayan, M. and Little, J. and Prior, J. and Cohen, T.R. and Soon, Z. and Bomide, H. and Purcell, S.
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Ball, G.D.C. and Merdad, R. and Birken, C.S. and Cohen, T.R. and Goodman, B. and Hadjiyannakis, S. and Hamilton, J. and Henderson, M. and Lammey, J. and Morrison, K.M. and Moore, S.A. and Mushquash, A.R. and Patton, I. and Pearce, N. and Ramjist, J.K. and Lebel, T.R. and Timmons, B.W. and Buchholz, A. and Cantwell, J. and Cooper, J. and Erdstein, J. and Fitzpatrick-Lewis, D. and Hatanaka, D. and Lindsay, P. and Sajwani, T. and Sebastianski, M. and Sherifali, D. and Pierre, J.St. and Ali, M.U. and Wijesundera, J. and Alberga, A.S. and Ausman, C. and Baluyot, T.C. and Burke, E. and Dadgostar, K. and Delacruz, B. and Dettmer, E. and Dymarski, M. and Esmaeilinezhad, Z. and Hale, I. and Harnois-Leblanc, S. and Ho, J. and Gehring, N.D. and Kucera, M. and Langer, J.C. and McPherson, A.C. and Naji, L. and Oei, K. and O?Malley, G. and Rigsby, A.M. and Wahi, G. and Zenlea, I.S. and Johnston, B.C.
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Bornath, D.P.D. and McCarthy, S.F. and Tucker, J.A.L. and Cohen, T.R. and Medeiros, P.J. and Hazell, T.J.
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Mehranfar, S. and Ceolin, G. and Madani Civi, R. and Keller, H. and Murphy, R.A. and Cohen, T.R. and Conklin, A.I.
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Mehranfar, S. and Ceolin, G. and Madani Civi, R. and Keller, H. and Murphy, R.A. and Cohen, T.R. and Conklin, A.I.
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Ball, G.D.C. and Merdad, R. and Birken, C.S. and Cohen, T.R. and Goodman, B. and Hadjiyannakis, S. and Hamilton, J. and Henderson, M. and Lammey, J. and Morrison, K.M. and Moore, S.A. and Mushquash, A.R. and Patton, I. and Pearce, N. and Ramjist, J.K. and Lebel, T.R. and Timmons, B.W. and Buchholz, A. and Cantwell, J. and Cooper, J. and Erdstein, J. and Fitzpatrick-Lewis, D. and Hatanaka, D. and Lindsay, P. and Sajwani, T. and Sebastianski, M. and Sherifali, D. and Pierre, J.S. and Ali, M.U. and Wijesundera, J. and Alberga, A.S. and Ausman, C. and Baluyot, T.C. and Burke, E. and Dadgostar, K. and Delacruz, B. and Dettmer, E. and Dymarski, M. and Esmaeilinezhad, Z. and Hale, I. and Harnois-Leblanc, S. and Ho, J. and Gehring, N.D. and Kucera, M. and Langer, J.C. and McPherson, A.C. and Naji, L. and Oei, K. and O{'}Malley, G. and Rigsby, A.M. and Wahi, G. and Zenlea, I.S. and Johnston, B.C.
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Deslippe, A.L. and Bergeron, C. and Wu, O.Y. and Cohen, T.R.
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Bornath, D.P.D. and Mccarthy, S.F. and Tucker, J.A.L. and Cohen, T.R. and Medeiros, P.J. and Hazell, T.J.
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Zhao, B. and Cohen, T.R. and Sutherland, J. and Meza, R. and Bhatti, P. and Murphy, R.A.
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Ben-Porat, T. and Lahav, Y. and Cohen, T.R. and Bacon, S.L. and Buch, A. and Moiz{\'e}, V. and Sherf-Dagan, S.
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Acosta, P.F.C. and Heidl, A.J. and Angeles, P.M. and Farnesi, B.-C. and Alcindor, P. and Alberga, A.S. and Erdstein, J. and Saputra, S. and Cohen, T.R.
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Purcell, S. and Smith, M. and Aghayan, M. and Little, J. and Prior, J.C. and Cohen, T.R. and Soon, Z. and Bomide, H.
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Purcell, S.A. and Cohen, T.R. and Gosselin, E.K. and Hildebrand, H. and Drapeau, V. and Panahi, S.
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Deslippe, A.L. and Bergeron, C. and Wu, O.Y. and Hernandez, K.J. and Comtois-Rousseau, E. and Cohen, T.R.
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Mehranfar, S. and Madani Civi, R. and Plunkett, R. and Murphy, R.A. and Cohen, T.R. and Conklin, A.I.
DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuae134Postharvest Biology and Technology
Fenniri, M.Z. and Pico, J. and Cohen, T.R. and Castellarin, S.D. and Rosado, A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2025.113603Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Gaspari, K. and Flechner-Klein, J. and Cohen, T.R. and Wedemire, C.
DOI: 10.1002/jpen.2744Childhood Obesity
Heidl, A.J. and Gierc, M. and Saputra, S. and Waliwitiya, T. and Puterman, E. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2024.0374Frontiers in Psychology
Yuan, T.Y. and Bouzari, N. and Bains, A. and Cohen, T.R. and Kakinami, L.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1383662Frontiers in Nutrition
Deslippe, A.L. and Middleton, G. and Wu, O.Y. and Bergeron, C. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1524135Journal of Applied Physiology
McCarthy, S.F. and Bornath, D.P.D. and Tucker, J.A.L. and Cohen, T.R. and Medeiros, P.J. and Hazell, T.J.
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00559.2024SSRN
Sage, O. and Wang, F. and DiAngelo, C. and Marsden, S. and Grant, S. and Cohen, T.R. and Faustini, C.
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4935078Public Health Nutrition
Anderson, J.J. and Bains, A. and Stachiw, J. and Heidl, A.J. and Paetsch, T. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980024001915International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Deslippe, A.L. and Soanes, A. and Bouchaud, C.C. and Beckenstein, H. and Slim, M. and Plourde, H. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-023-01424-2PLoS ONE
Kheirmandparizi, M. and Gouin, J.-P. and Bouchaud, C.C. and Kebbe, M. and Bergeron, C. and Civi, R.M. and Rhodes, R.E. and Farnesi, B.-C. and Bouguila, N. and Conklin, A.I. and Lear, S.A. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294652Childhood Obesity
Cohen, T.R. and Mak, I.L. and Loiselle, S.-E. and Kasvis, P. and Hazell, T.J. and Vanstone, C.A. and Rodd, C. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2022.0008Current Developments in Nutrition
Bouchaud, C.C. and Chriqui, J.R. and Slim, M. and Gouin, J.-P. and Plourde, H. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.101975Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research
Stein, S. and Robin, T. and Wesley, M. and Valley, W. and Clegg, D.J. and Ahenakew, C. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.3148/cjdpr-2023-017Obesity Pillars
Farnesi, B.-C. and Kaffash, K. and Cohen, T.R. and Alberga, A.S.
DOI: 10.1016/j.obpill.2023.100067Pediatric Obesity
Deslippe, A.L. and Bains, A. and Loiselle, S.-E. and Kasvis, P. and Mak, I. and Weiler, H. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12973Frontiers in Nutrition
Deslippe, A.L. and Bergeron, C. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1256189Journal of Sport Rehabilitation
Cohen, T.R. and Rosenstein, B. and Rizk, A. and Frenette, S. and Fortin, M.
DOI: 10.1123/jsr.2021-0398Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Ben-Porat, T. and Alberga, A. and Audet, M.-C. and Belleville, S. and Cohen, T.R. and Garneau, P.Y. and Lavoie, K.L. and Marion, P. and Mellah, S. and Pescarus, R. and Rahme, E. and Santosa, S. and Studer, A.-S. and Vuckovic, D. and Woods, R. and Yousefi, R. and Bacon, S.L. and Ben-Porat, T. and Cohen, T.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2023.02.022Research Square
Keymanesh, S. and Tosefsky, K. and Lam, J.S.T. and Metcalfe-Roach, A. and Uzelman, P. and Sacheli, M. and Tetzlaff, W. and Cohen, T.R. and Wellington, C. and Finlay, B.B. and Appel-Cresswell, S.
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2626068/v1Preventive Medicine
Kakinami, L. and Plummer, S. and Cohen, T.R. and Santosa, S. and Murphy, J.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107282SSRN
Wang, Y.N. and Heidl, A.J. and Angeles, P.M. and Farnesi, B.-C. and Alberga, A.S. and Cohen, T.R.
Appetite
Gdde, J.U. and Yuan, T.Y. and Kakinami, L. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105782Nutrition and Health
Heidl, A.J. and Litzenberger, K. and Cohen, T.R. and Plourde, H.
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Kasvis, P. and Cohen, T.R. and Loiselle, S.?. and Hazell, T.J. and Vanstone, C.A. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.3390/nu14153153Cancer Reports
Beckenstein, H. and Slim, M. and Kim, H. and Plourde, H. and Kilgour, R. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.1002/cnr2.1337Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research
Bouzo, V. and Plourde, H. and Beckenstein, H. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.3148/cjdpr-2021-022Frontiers in Psychology
Cohen, T.R. and Kakinami, L. and Plourde, H. and Hunot-Alexander, C. and Beeken, R.J.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.779041Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism
Mak, I.L. and Cohen, T.R. and Vanstone, C.A. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2019-0046JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Ji, Y. and Plourde, H. and Bouzo, V. and Kilgour, R.D. and Cohen, T.R.
DOI: 10.2196/16953Pediatric Obesity
Mak, I.L. and Cohen, T.R. and Vanstone, C.A. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12689Yuwei Ji and Hugues Plourde and Valerie Bouzo and Robert D Kilgour and Tamara R Cohen
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.1695311 / 2019
Appetite
Cohen, T.R. and Hazell, T.J. and Vanstone, C.A. and Rodd, C. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.01.017Calcified Tissue International
Cohen, T.R. and Hazell, T.J. and Vanstone, C.A. and Rodd, C. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-017-0318-8Pediatric Research
Hazell, T.J. and Ellery, C.V.L. and Cohen, T.R. and Vanstone, C.A. and Rodd, C.J. and Weiler, H.A.
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Cohen, T.R. and Hazell, T.J. and Vanstone, C.A. and Rodd, C. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.17269/CJPH.107.5470Science
Siklenka, K. and Erkek, S. and Godmann, M. and Lambrot, R. and McGraw, S. and Lafleur, C. and Cohen, T. and Xia, J. and Suderman, M. and Hallett, M. and Trasler, J. and Peters, A.H.F.M. and Kimmins, S.
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2006Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism
Weiler, H.A. and Jean-Philippe, S. and Cohen, T.R. and Vanstone, C.A. and Agellon, S.
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Kasvis, P. and Cohen, T.R. and Loiselle, S.-T. and Kim, N. and Hazell, T.J. and Vanstone, C.A. and Rodd, C. and Plourde, H. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2014.12.012Reproduction
Dupuis, L. and Schuermann, Y. and Cohen, T. and Siddappa, D. and Kalaiselvanraja, A. and Pansera, M. and Bordignon, V. and Duggavathi, R.
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0356BMC Public Health
Cohen, T.R. and Hazell, T.J. and Vanstone, C.A. and Plourde, H. and Rodd, C.J. and Weiler, H.A.
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-383Journal of pregnancy
Cohen, T.R. and Koski, K.G.
DOI: 10.1155/2013/787032Nature Communications
Lambrot, R. and Xu, C. and Saint-Phar, S. and Chountalos, G. and Cohen, T. and Paquet, M. and Suderman, M. and Hallett, M. and Kimmins, S.
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3889Journal of physical activity & health
Cohen, T.R. and Plourde, H. and Koski, K.G.
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.10.7.1000Journal of Physical Activity and Health
Montpetit, A.E. and Plourde, H. and Cohen, T.R. and Koski, K.G.
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.9.7.1020Canadian Journal of Public Health
Cohen, T.R. and Plourde, H. and Koski, K.G.
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405570Together with Dr. Eli Puterman, our projects are centered around program evaluation which include exploring changes in participant’s health behaviours.
Adherence to changes in diet in the long run are very hard. Self-monitoring, or tracking what you eat, is one method often used to help people eat according to guidelines. This study aims to create a mobile application that mirrors Canada’s Food Guide as a way to help people eat balanced diets.
Bariatric surgery for adolescents living with severe obesity is emerging as a treatment option to help manage obesity in Canada. Working with the Center for Excellence for Adolescents Living with Severe Obesity (CEASO) Unit at Montreal Children’s Hospital (Montreal, QC), this project aims to create a nutrition education tool for adolescents to help manage adherence to what is often a drastically new way of eating after surgery and beyond.
PERFORM Multidisciplinary Health Research Award (2020) - Development of an innovative smartphone application based on the new Canada’s Food Guide
SPARC Hampton Research Award for New Faculty (2020) - Understanding the interplay between intuitive eating behaviours and physical activity in adults
Montreal Children’s Hospital Adolescent Medicine Research Award (2020) - Evaluating the Acceptability and Feasibility of Protein Cards to Assist Adolescent Bariatric Patients in Tracking their Protein Intake
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