Marie-Hélène Pesant, Université de Sherbrooke

Research

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Latest funding

Fit-for-Fertility: A Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Reproductive and Gestational Outcomes of Women with Obesity and Infertility; A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000
The Fit-for-Fertility Multicenter Randomized-Controlled Trial: Improving Reproductive, Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women with Obesity and Infertility
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$761,176
Evaluation of clinical outcomes and costs of a transferable interdisciplinary lifestyle intervention pre-and per-pregnancy in obese infertile women
CIHR · 2010 · Co-investigator
$345,500

All 3 grants and awards

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Fit-for-Fertility: A Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Reproductive and Gestational Outcomes of Women with Obesity and Infertility; A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research

Principal investigators: Baillargeon, Jean-Patrice

Keywords: Fertility; Intervention; Lifestyle; Multicenter; Obesity; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Pregnancy; Randomized Controlled Trial; Weight Management; Women

$100,000

The Fit-for-Fertility Multicenter Randomized-Controlled Trial: Improving Reproductive, Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women with Obesity and Infertility

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Project Grant

Principal investigators: Baillargeon, Jean-Patrice

Keywords: Fertility; Intervention; Lifestyle; Multicenter; Obesity; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Pregnancy; Randomized Controlled Trial; Weight Loss; Women

$761,176

Evaluation of clinical outcomes and costs of a transferable interdisciplinary lifestyle intervention pre-and per-pregnancy in obese infertile women

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI)

Principal investigators: Baillargeon, Jean-Patrice; Auger, Jeannine; Belisle, Serge; Waddell, Guy

Keywords: Health Economics; Health System Improvement; Infertility; Lifestyle Management; Obesity; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Pregnancy Outcomes; Randomized-Controlled Trial

$345,500

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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