Claude Bouchard is a board member of AOA and director of a CORE facility. In 1997 his university stated that he "has been awarded $1 million" as the recipient of a chair endowed by Roche Canada and a pharmaceutical trade group. According to a company spokesman, the "team effort" between Roche and Bouchard's university would help "shape the future of health research in Canada."
Bouchard, who has been an influential leader in and president of both IASO and NAASO, was among the financially conflicted researchers on the NIH panel that in 1998 lowered the government's official threshold for "overweight" to include an extra 35 million Americans. Bouchard serves on the scientific advisory board of Weight Watchers International.
