Adam Baxter-Jones
Rank / Position 
Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Hons.) Biology, New University of Ulster, 1985
Ph.D., University of Aberdeen, 1995
Professional Practice
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
British Association of Sports and Exercise Science (BASES)
North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM)
Society for the Study of Human Biology (SSHB)
World Cancer Research Fund’s Children’s Education Advisory Panel
Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Saskatchewan (CDPAS)
Previous Postings
1985 - 1987 Medical Physics Technician, Lung Function Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
1987 - 1992 Research Assistant, Institute of Child Health, University of London, UK
1992 - 2000 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Child Health, University of Aberdeen, UK
Biography
Dr Adam Baxter-Jones has published over 90 articles related to childhood growth and development. He is an expert in the design and analysis of longitudinal growth studies. He holds or has held in the last 5 years over $7.8 million in grant funding and has trained numerous Masters and PhD students. Dr Baxter-Jones was born in London, UK in 1963. He graduated from the New University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in 1985 with B.Sc. (Hons.) in Biology. In 1984 he won a New University of Ulster Undergraduate Biostatistics prize. On graduating he trained as a Medical Technical Officer (respiratory physiologist) in the Lung Function Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK (1985 to 1987). In 1987 he took up a position as an exercise physiologist on a longitudinal study of the growth and development of elite young athletes (The TOYA Study). A study funded by Sport England which ran from 1987 through to 1992 and was based in the Institute of Child Health, University of London. Whilst there he was trained as an auxologist in the lab of Dr JM Tanners, the world’s preeminent expert in children’s growth and development. In 1992 he relocated to the Department of Child Health, University of Aberdeen, UK and in 1995 was awarded a PhD on the physical effects of systematic training during puberty and adolescence. As a Senior Research Fellow in Child Health, at the University of Aberdeen, he continued to work in the area of childhood growth and development, specifically in the area of pediatric respiratory disease. As part of these studies he developed an interest in the relationship between corticoid steroid use and bone development. Dr Baxter-Jones moved to the University of Saskatchewan in October 2000 and is currently Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Education and Research) in the College of Kinesiology and an Associate member of the Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine. Here he is the directory of two ongoing longitudinal studies of childhood growth and development: The Saskatchewan Growth and Development Study (SGDS)(1964-1973, 1996-1998 & 2008-2011) and the Pediatric Bone Mineral Accrual Study (BMAS) (1991-2011) both currently funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR). These two world renowned studies of childhood growth and development have produced over 100 peer reviewed articles, so far, and numerous PhD and MSc dissertations. He is also involved in the development of newly emerging longitudinal studies in a variety of populations including young gymnasts, children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and a pregnancy study investigating intrauterine antecedents of Inflammation-Mediated Disease. Dr Baxter-Jones is also the director of a provincial bone and joint imaging health research group that facilitates researchers from a variety of backgrounds to further the development of diagnostic imaging from desktop micro-QCT to MRI and now synchatron imaging at the Canadian Light Source (CLS).
