Director, Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory; Professor
Dr. Michelle Mottola specializes in maternal health during pregnancy, understanding environmental health factors through her Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory. Her research concerns health and nutrition, investigating activity during pregnancy to optimize health outcomes.
Children's Health Collaborators: Martha Karen Campbell and Rob Gratton
Research Interests / Specializations: Effects of maternal exercise on carbohydrate metabolism and fetal outcome, Nutritional intake and gestational diabetes, Pregnancy & post-partum physical fitness training in fit women
Dr. Mottola is the Director of R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation - Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory at Western - which is the only lab in North America that specializes in the area of exercising pregnant and post-partum women. She is an anatomist and exercise physiologist, who, for the past 20 years, has conducted research on the effects of maternal exercise on both the mother and the developing fetus. Dr. Mottola's main research focus:
- Preventing childhood obesity: early intervention through pregnancy and first year postpartum using a family-based Nutrition & Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP).
- Bringing family-based NELIP into the clinical setting for obese pregnant women and their families.
- Nutrition and exercise effects on maternal weight gain and chronic disease risk in both mother and child.
- Exercise prescription - application of the PARmed-X for pregnancy; http://www.csep.ca/cmfiles/publications/parq/parmed-xpreg.pdf
- Effects of maternal exercise on glucose metabolism in gestational diabetic women and women at risk for gestational diabetes.
- Effects of bed-rest exercise intervention on hospitalized high risk pregnant women.
- Effects of maternal exercise on carbohydrate metabolism and fetal outcome
- Effects of nutritional intake and maternal exercise on gestational diabetes
- Prevention of childhood obesity through early intervention during pregnancy and post delivery
- Nutrition & Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP) for overweight and obese pregnant women
- Be Healthy In Pregnancy (B-HIP) with Nutrition and Exercise (with McMaster University)
- Stroller walking program for postpartum women for safe weight loss after delivery
- Effects of a bed-rest-exercise intervention on hospitalized high risk pregnant women
Dr. Mottola is a Professor with a Joint Position in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences and the Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is the Director of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation – Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory at Western University, which is the only lab in North America that specializes in the area of exercising pregnant and postpartum women. She is a Scientist of the Children’s Health Research Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM). She has received over $2.9 million for research on exercise during pregnancy and has published over 70 papers on this topic. She has given over 150 invited talks in the area of exercise during pregnancy or postpartum.
Professional and Academic Experience
Invited grant reviewer for the Canadian Diabetes Association (Committee III) and for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Stage 2 -Foundation Scheme Committee. Invited International Expert to attend a global workshop for a Consensus Statement on Elite Athletes in Pregnancy and Post-partum by the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission at the IOC Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 28-30th, 2015.
Research Group: Children's Health
Research Interest Area: Exercise and physical activity; Obstetrics; Obesity
Research Overview
Dr. Mottola has conducted research on the effects of maternal exercise on both the mother and the developing fetus, with follow up into the postpartum period. Her research has led to a co-authorship on the PARmed-X for Pregnancy, which contains Canadian exercise guidelines for pregnant women, published by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiologists and Health Canada and endorsed by the Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists of Canada, and the American College of Sports Medicine. Her current research focuses on the impact of using interventions with nutrition and exercise during pregnancy to prevent chronic disease risks such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease for both mother and the offspring.
Keywords: Exercise, Pregnancy, Lifestyle Intervention, Obesity, Chronic Disease Prevention
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About Michelle Mottola
Dr. Michelle Mottola specializes in maternal health during pregnancy, understanding environmental health factors through her Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory. Her research concerns health and nutrition, investigating activity during pregnancy to optimize health outcomes.
Children's Health Collaborators: Martha Karen Campbell and Rob Gratton
Research Interests / Specializations: Effects of maternal exercise on carbohydrate metabolism and fetal outcome, Nutritional intake and gestational diabetes, Pregnancy & post-partum physical fitness training in fit women
Dr. Mottola is the Director of R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation - Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory at Western - which is the only lab in North America that specializes in the area of exercising pregnant and post-partum women. She is an anatomist and exercise physiologist, who, for the past 20 years, has conducted research on the effects of maternal exercise on both the mother and the developing fetus. Dr. Mottola's main research focus:
- Preventing childhood obesity: early intervention through pregnancy and first year postpartum using a family-based Nutrition & Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP).
- Bringing family-based NELIP into the clinical setting for obese pregnant women and their families.
- Nutrition and exercise effects on maternal weight gain and chronic disease risk in both mother and child.
- Exercise prescription - application of the PARmed-X for pregnancy; http://www.csep.ca/cmfiles/publications/parq/parmed-xpreg.pdf
- Effects of maternal exercise on glucose metabolism in gestational diabetic women and women at risk for gestational diabetes.
- Effects of bed-rest exercise intervention on hospitalized high risk pregnant women.
- Effects of maternal exercise on carbohydrate metabolism and fetal outcome
- Effects of nutritional intake and maternal exercise on gestational diabetes
- Prevention of childhood obesity through early intervention during pregnancy and post delivery
- Nutrition & Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP) for overweight and obese pregnant women
- Be Healthy In Pregnancy (B-HIP) with Nutrition and Exercise (with McMaster University)
- Stroller walking program for postpartum women for safe weight loss after delivery
- Effects of a bed-rest-exercise intervention on hospitalized high risk pregnant women
Dr. Mottola is a Professor with a Joint Position in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences and the Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is the Director of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation – Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory at Western University, which is the only lab in North America that specializes in the area of exercising pregnant and postpartum women. She is a Scientist of the Children’s Health Research Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM). She has received over $2.9 million for research on exercise during pregnancy and has published over 70 papers on this topic. She has given over 150 invited talks in the area of exercise during pregnancy or postpartum.
Professional and Academic Experience
Invited grant reviewer for the Canadian Diabetes Association (Committee III) and for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Stage 2 -Foundation Scheme Committee. Invited International Expert to attend a global workshop for a Consensus Statement on Elite Athletes in Pregnancy and Post-partum by the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission at the IOC Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 28-30th, 2015.
Research Group: Children's Health
Research Interest Area: Exercise and physical activity; Obstetrics; Obesity
Research Overview
Dr. Mottola has conducted research on the effects of maternal exercise on both the mother and the developing fetus, with follow up into the postpartum period. Her research has led to a co-authorship on the PARmed-X for Pregnancy, which contains Canadian exercise guidelines for pregnant women, published by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiologists and Health Canada and endorsed by the Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists of Canada, and the American College of Sports Medicine. Her current research focuses on the impact of using interventions with nutrition and exercise during pregnancy to prevent chronic disease risks such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease for both mother and the offspring.
Keywords: Exercise, Pregnancy, Lifestyle Intervention, Obesity, Chronic Disease Prevention
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| Present | Professor, Western University ‐ Faculty of Health Sciences in Kinesiology | |
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| Present | Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute ‐ Children's Health Research Institute (CHRI) | |
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