Dr. Gagnon is an adult endocrinologist. She has completed a 3-year research fellowship in metabolic bone diseases and phosphocalcic metabolism disorders. She is a clinician researcher at the CHU de Québec-Laval University Research Centre and a Professor at Laval University’s School of Medicine. She is also an associate researcher at Laval University’s Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods. Her research focusses on the impact of obesity and type 2 diabetes treatments on bone health (including bariatric surgery and medical treatments). She also works on the effects of vitamin D and other nutrients on the prevention of type 2 diabetes and, finally, on phosphocalcic metabolism disorders. Her research is financed by Diabète Québec, Diabetes Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Dr. Gagnon has received several prizes and honours, including the 2017 research prize from the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec, a 2015 young investigator award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, an award at the 2015 International Symposium on the Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis, and a 2019 Jean-Davignon young investigator award from the FRQ-S cardiometabolic, diabetes and obesity network.
To evaluate the impact of bariatric surgery and other obesity treatments on bone health
Bariatric surgery is associated with clear benefits on reducing obesity-related diseases. However, data cumulated over the last few years suggest that certain types of bariatric procedures have adverse effects on bone health. Moreover, the effect of medical weight loss on bone health is not well studied. Dr. Gagnon’s research aims at evaluating the impact of different types of bariatric procedures and obesity treatments on bone markers, and to determine the mechanisms by which they influence bone health.
To evaluate the effects of vitamin D and other nutrients on the risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Certain nutrients hold promise to decrease the risk of diabetes in people at high risk. Dr. Gagnon’s expertise is to perform clinical trials to evaluate whether these nutrients are effective.
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Vitamin D status and supplementation before and after Bariatric Surgery: Recommendations based on a systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal ArticleRev Endocr Metab Disord, 2023.
Added value of waist circumference to body mass index for predicting fracture risk in obesity: a prospective study from the CARTaGENE cohort
Journal ArticleArch Osteoporos, 18 (1), 2023.
Relationships between Obesity and Incidence of Fractures in a Middle-Aged Population: A Study from the CARTaGENE Cohort
Journal ArticleJBMR Plus, 7 (5), 2023.
Prevalence and determinants of hypertension in the adult Inuit population of Nunavik (northern Quebec, Canada)
Journal ArticleCan J Public Health, 2023.
First-trimester diet quality in association with maternal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue thicknesses and glucose homeostasis during pregnancy
Journal ArticleInt J Food Sci Nutr, 74 (2), 2023.
Reduced Intestinal Calcium Absorption Correlates With Bone Loss After Sleeve Gastrectomy: Implications for Clinical Care
Journal ArticleJ Clin Endocrinol Metab, 108 (3), 2023.
Efficacy and Safety of Parathyroid Hormone Replacement With TransCon PTH in Hypoparathyroidism: 26-Week Results From the Phase 3 PaTHway Trial
Journal ArticleJ Bone Miner Res, 38 (1), 2023.
Impact of glycemic variability on cognitive impairment, disordered eating behaviors and self-management skills in patients with type 1 diabetes: study protocol for a cross-sectional online study, the Sugar Swing study
Journal ArticleBMC Endocr Disord, 22 (1), 2022.
Trimester-Specific Serum Fructosamine in Association with Abdominal Adiposity, Insulin Resistance, and Inflammation in Healthy Pregnant Individuals
Journal ArticleNutrients, 14 (19), 2022.
Perceptions of fracture and fall risk and of the benefits and barriers to exercise in adults with diabetes
Journal ArticleOsteoporos Int, 33 (12), 2022.
Active projects
- A new focus on protein and the gut microbiota to explain health benefits of dairy foods, from 2022-01-01 to 2024-12-31
- Bone and Muscle Health Following Sleeve Gastrectomy in Men, Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women, from 2022-04-01 to 2027-03-31
- Chaire de recherche diabète et maladies endocriniennes, from 2023-04-27 to 2025-04-26
- Covid-19 effects on ARTErial StIffness and vascular AgiNg (CARTESIAN) study- Canada, from 2021-06-01 to 2024-05-31
- Dissecting host-microbiome modifiers of type 2 diabetes risk - Objective 1.3, from 2019-11-01 to 2024-10-31
- Identifying low bone turnover disease in chronic kidney disease in order to guide anti-fracture therapy, from 2020-10-01 to 2025-09-30
- Impact de l'obésité, du diabète et de la chirurgie bariatrique sur la santé osseuse., from 2023-07-01 to 2025-06-30
- Impact of glycemic control on skeletal outcomes in adults with type 1 diabetes, from 2022-12-01 to 2025-11-30
- Impact of Glycemic Variability on Cognitive Impairment, Disordered Eating Behaviors and Self-Management Skills in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes, from 2021-12-01 to 2024-11-30
- Institut sur la nutrition et les aliments fonctionnels (INAF), from 2017-04-01 to 2024-03-31
- La santé osseuse après une chirurgie bariatrique chez des patients ayant un diabète de type 2 - suivi 3 ans post chirurgie, from 2022-01-01 to 2024-12-31
- Multifaceted Intervention using Telehealth to Reduce the risk of Falls and Fractures in Older Men (MisterFit study): a Pilot Study , from 2021-10-01 to 2025-09-30
- Prix Jeune Chercheur 2022 de la Société canadienne d'endocrinologie et métabolisme, from 2022-09-14 to 2024-09-13
- Santé osseuse et musculaire après une gastrectomie en manchon chez des hommes, des femmes préménopausées et des femmes ménopausées, from 2023-03-01 to 2028-07-01
Recently finished projects
- Associations Between the Changes in Gut Microbiota and Bone and Muscle Outcomes After Sleeve Gastrectomy, from 2021-04-01 to 2022-03-31
- BEhaviors, Therapies, TEchnologies and hypoglycemic Risk in Type 1 diabetes: The BETTER study, from 2018-04-01 to 2022-03-31
- Bone health after bariatric surgery in patient with type 2 diabetes, from 2017-07-01 to 2022-12-31
- Demonstration of the prebiotic-like effects of camu-camu consumption against obesity-related disorders in humans, from 2019-07-01 to 2022-06-30
- Determinants of bone and muscle quality and function in obesity with and without diabetes - BODI 2, from 2019-12-18 to 2021-09-30
- Insulinorésistance et santé osseuse chez l’obèse : rôle des nutriments et des facteurs hormonaux, from 2017-10-01 to 2021-09-30
- Perinatal research unit for a sustainable health of mother and child, from 2018-03-01 to 2021-12-31
- Traiter l’os pour prévenir l’hypertension et les maladies cardiovasculaires chez les femmes ménopausées., from 2021-05-01 to 2023-06-30
- Translational approach to establish the cardiometabolic health effects and mechanisms of action of fish nutrients: from animal models to obese insulin-resistant subjects, from 2013-06-01 to 2023-03-31