Dr. Michael Vallis, Ph.D., R. Psych.
Psychologist, Associate Professor | Family Medicine, Halifax, Nova
Scotia Canada
Dr. Vallis is a registered health psychologist practicing in Halifax. He is a Health Behaviour Change Consultant and Associate Professor in Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. His main area of expertise is adult health psychology, with an emphasis on diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular risk and gastroenterology. He regularly supervises clinical and academic students at Dalhousie and is active in research on motivation, behavioural change and
adaptation to chronic disease. He was recently awarded a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Government of Canada on the recommendation of Diabetes Canada.



