Eli Puterman

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Associate Professor

School of Kinesiology

Faculty of Education

Dr. Eli Puterman is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada. He has been appointed a Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Health by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2015-2025) and received a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award (2016-2021). He completed his graduate training in Health Psychology at UBC (Supervisor: Dr. Anita DeLongis) and postdoctoral work at the Centre for Health and Community in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (Mentors: Drs. Elissa Epel, Nancy Adler).

His research seeks to develop, evaluate, and disseminate physical activity programs and initiatives among hard-to-reach populations, and incorporates psychological and biological markers of health and wellbeing measured both within laboratory and in situ settings, using mobile technologies for program delivery and evaluation of program delivery. He is currently completing several randomized trials, including a depression and burnout reduction exercise program using mobile technologies for healthcare workers, a dance program for women living with HIV, and a ball hockey program for military veterans (co-PI Mark Beauchamp). 

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

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