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Stuart Phillips, Kinesiology, has been elected as a 2017 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS). The CAHS is one of three national academies that comprise the Council of Canadian Academies; the others are Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Election to one of Academies is the highest honour granted to scholars in Canada. Fellows of the Academy are selected based on demonstrated leadership, creativity, distinctive competencies and commitment to advance academic health sciences. He was inducted at a ceremony held in Ottawa on September 14. Phillips hold the Canada Research Chair in Human Skeletal Muscle Health in Aging.