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Melanie Couture is a clinical exercise physiologist focused on metabolic, cardiovascular, and pulmonary responses to structured exercise across health and disease states. She supervises graded exercise testing, develops individualized cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs, and coaches clinicians on prescription principles and monitoring. Melanie publishes on exercise testing protocols, risk stratification, and integrating wearable telemetry into supervised sessions. She mentors graduate students and leads workshops on exercise as medicine in primary and specialty care. Current projects include pragmatic trials of home-based cardiac rehab supported by remote monitoring.