Pouran D. Faghri, MD, MS, FACSM
Dr. Pouran Faghri is a medical doctor and an exercise physiologist with expertise in health promotion, wellness, and disability prevention in neurologically impaired and those with chronic conditions and elderly individuals. Dr. Faghri’s areas of research interests are: work-site health promotion programs (design/intervention/evaluation), community health promotion programs (design/intervention/evaluation), health related behavior, intervention strategies, and evaluation of social determinant of health, self-care, self awareness, and decision making strategies under uncertain or distributed environments, health promotion and secondary disability prevention (neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and physiological) in disabled and elderly population.
She has joint appointments with the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Connecticut and University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Community Medicine. Dr. Faghri’s research has been continuously funded by federal and private organizations. Presently, she is the Principal investigators of a CDC/DPH funded project entitled “the ConnectiFIT” to develop and implement worksite health promotion interventions for the state of Connecticut Agencies (http://www.connectifit.uconn.edu). She is also one of the investigators in the newly funded NIOSH/CDC grant entitled “Center for New England Healthy Workforce” in which she the team leader for the Health Promotion Methodology Team. She has more that 100 publications in archival journals, conference proceedings and presented her research in national and international conferences. Presently, she is on the editorial boards of Clinical Kinesiology, Clinical Rehabilitation, and IEEE Transaction in Biology and Medicine. She is a primary grant reviewer for National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Paralyze Veteran of America, Spinal Cord Injury Foundation, Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), as well as many prestigious archival journals.
