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Dr. Michael  Vallis

M Vallis

Email: tvallis@dal.ca
Phone: 902-473-4741
Mailing Address: 
Dalhousie Family Medicine
1465 Brenton Street, Suite 402
Halifax NS B3J 3T4
 

Education

  • PhD University of Western Ontario
  • MA University of Western Ontario
  • BSc Dalhousie University

Research Interests

Dr. Vallis is a health psychologist with expertise in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular risk and gastroenterology. He spends most of his time training healthcare providers in behaviour change for chronic disease management. He regularly supervises clinical and academic students and is active in research on motivation, behavioural change and adaptation to chronic disease.  He consults nationally as well as internationally and is heavily involved in academic publications, journal editing, and clinical practice guidelines. He was on the executive of the Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Obesity (2020) and lead author of the Psychological and Behavioural Chapter for these new guidelines as well as the 2006 obesity guidelines.  He is an author of the Psychology and Mental Health chapter of Diabetes Canada’s Clinical Practice Guidelines (2023, 2018, 2013, 2004). He received the 2024 Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons, a 2024 Honorary Fellowship from the National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health (NIPC, Ireland), the 2021 Charles H Best award from Diabetes Canada and holds a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Government of Canada on the recommendation of the Diabetes Canada.

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