Dr. Mottola is a Professor with a Joint Position in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. She is the Director of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation–Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory; Chair of the Maternal Fetal Newborn Health Division-Children’s Health Research Institute; and a Fellow and Chair of the Pregnancy and Postpartum Special Interest Group of the American College of Sports Medicine. She is an anatomist (embryologist) and exercise physiologist who has conducted research on the effects of maternal exercise on both the mother and the developing fetus. She was co-lead author on the 2019 Canadian Guideline for Physical Activity throughout Pregnancy which was based on rigorous evaluation of the current scientific literature through 12 systematic reviews published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. She has received over $4.5 million for research on exercise during pregnancy, has published 135 peer-reviewed papers and given over 170 invited talks in the area of exercise during pregnancy or postpartum. Her current research focuses on the impact of a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy and postpartum on chronic disease risks such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease for both mother and her offspring.