Bareket Falk is a pediatric exercise physiologist, currently at the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University. She received her PhD from McMaster University (1991) in Canada under the mentorship of Oded Bar-Or.
She then worked as the Head of the Physiology unit and the acting director of the Research and Sports Medicine Center at the Wingate Institute in Israel. Her research has spanned various areas in pediatric exercise physiology, including thermoregulation, metabolism during and following exercise and the effects of physical activity and training on growing bone and on muscle function. She has performed her research in clinical and research settings. Her more recent areas of research include the effect of exercise and physical training on bone health and on neuro-muscular function during growth and maturation.
She has taught numerous courses in pediatric exercise physiology and sports medicine at the undergraduate and graduate level. She is the current editor of Pediatric Exercise Science and has played an active role in the North American Society of Pediatric Exercise Medicine, as well as in the European Group of Pediatric Work Physiology.
