Tam completed his doctoral training at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Following the completion of his PhD Tam was a visiting scholar in three entirely different organizations. Firstly, at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, he investigated how adipokines and exercise-induced myokines affect the tumor microenvironment. Secondly, Tam studied how mutations in adaptor proteins affect skeletal muscle and adipose tissue metabolism at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Finally, he delineated the fundamental differences between childhood-onset obesity and adulthood-onset obesity at PERFORM Centre, Concordia University. Tam’s research on exercise, metabolism, and the prevention of chronic disease has been recognized with a number of research achievement awards/ training fellowships from different universities, research institutes, and professional societies.

Dysregulated metabolism - obesity, diabetes, and cancer

Psychiatric disorders

Preventive medicine

Exercise/ lifestyle intervention