Kerry Courneya
Kerry Stephen Courneya (born 1963) is a Canadian kinesiologist. As a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Cancer at the University of Alberta, his research focuses on physical activity after a cancer diagnosis (i.e., exercise oncology). Early life and education Courneya was born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario in 1987 and then completed his Master's degree in Physical Education at the same institution in 1989. He then received his PhD in Kinesiology in 1992 from the University of Illinois. Career Upon completing his formal education in 1992, Courneya spent five years as an assistant/associate professor at the University of Calgary before accepting a similar position at the University of Alberta (U of A) in 1997. As a kinesiologist at U of A, Courneya received funding for numerous clinical trials to study cancer patients reactions to exercise during and after cancer therapy. One of his early clinical trials involved trying to determine whether weight training may be of benefit to patients undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. He was among the first researchers to systematically study the field of