Event

Why Should You Join the Healthier Together Challenge? Insights from Dr. Steven Grover

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 12:00to13:00

Offered by the Health and Well-Being Program

 

Learn more about the McGill Healthier Together - Heart Health Challenge from the brains behind the program- Dr. Steven Grover, Director of the McGill Comprehensive Health Improvement Program (CHIP) and a Professor of Medicine at McGill University.

If you are on the fence about the challenge or want to find out more, Dr. Grover will discuss the next mission starting on February 14th and reveal results from the last 2 McGill challenges. Come and ask your questions, we want to hear from you too!


About the speaker: Dr. Steven A. Grover is the Director of the McGill Comprehensive Health Improvement Program (CHIP) and a Professor of Medicine at McGill University.

Steven’s research interests include the importance of exercise, healthy eating, medication adherence and other lifestyle interventions to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia.

More recently he has focused on the impact of web-based health promotion on measurable outcomes. To support this work, his research team has developed the myhealthcheckup and nvigorus web-based platforms which have now been used by over 300,000 individuals world-wide.

Steven is an avid but slow jogger and walking everywhere in any weather. He has been happily married for over 35 years to his wife, Mara, who is also a physician. They have four sons who never listen to them and two dogs that occasionally do.

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  3. For more information regarding registration, and general inquiries please contact healthandwellbeing.hr [at] mcgill.ca
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