Valérie Lamantia

Experience

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  Rosemont figure skating club

  Sept 2001 - Apr 2013

  Figure skating coaching

  Group, semi-private, private lessonsCertification by the Programme national de certification des entraîneurs and by Skate Canada, Level 1

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  Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) / Montreal Clinical Research Institute

  Jan 2013 - Jul 2020

  PhD student

  I worked on dietary interventions (weight loss and omega-3 fatty acid supplementation) that can treat hyperapoB (elevated number of cholesterol transporters) to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. I examine mechanisms of white adipose tissue dysfunction, abnormal lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia and inflammation. I use a combination of clinical techniques in human subjects (euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp, tracing of dietary fat using stable isotope, indirect calorimetry, etc.) and basic techniques in adipocytes, human adipose tissue or human plasma samples (lipid extraction, tracing of radioactive lipids, imaging of surface receptors by confocal microscopy, immunoenzymatic assay, radioimmunologic assay, immunoblotting, etc). Show less

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  Clinique Altermed

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Registered dietitian

  Nutrition private counsellingSpecialities: Obesity, cardiometabolic diseases, gastrointestinal diseases

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  Université de Montréal

  Jun 2013 - Nov 2018

  Teaching assistant (Nutrition Department)

  - Supervision of anthropometric laboratory and correction. NUT2048: Mesures de l’état nutritionnel. (9/2018 to 11/2018)- Lecturer. NUT2054-Nutrition clinique - Endocrinologie: Approche clinique chez l’adulte avec surpoids. Systèmes de groupes d’aliments: Introduction (10/10/2018)- Mini-memoir supervision (3 students; fall 2016 and 2013)- Correction of final exams. NUT2047 Nutrition: cardiology and gastroenterology (02/2015)- Supervision of COPSE Traineeship (2 students, summer 2015 and 2013) Show less

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  Université de Montréal

  Aug 2020 - now

  Medical Student