Biography
Dr. David Stepp completed his PhD at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1993 and conducted postdoctoral studies at the University Of Washington School Of Medicine and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is Professor of Physiology in the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University. He has been funded continuously by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association for nearly 20 years and authored high-impact papers on the cardiovascular impact of obesity in Circulation, Circulation Research, Journal of the American Heart Association and Hypertension. He serves on NIH Study Section VCMB as a charter member and on the editorial boards of Circulation, ATVB and the American Journals of Physiology. Dr. Stepp’s research interests are focused on identifying links between the altered metabolic states of obese individuals and their cardiovascular outcomes. Specific themes are understanding roles of insulin resistance, oxidant stress and muscle mass in impaired control of blood flow and arterial pressure. Understanding and ultimately breaking these links would allow new treatments for the cardiovascular disease so evident in obese, metabolically compromised populations.
Research Interest
Obesity,Diabetes,Regulation of cardiovascular during stress
Biography
Shuxia Wang completed her PhD from Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and postdoctoral studies from University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences at University of Kentucky and a Research Scientist in Lexington VA Medical Centers. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of obesity/diabetes associated metabolic complications including insulin resistance and cardiovascular and renal complications. Her research is supported by funding from National Institutes of Health and Veteran Affairs. She has published over 35 papers in high impact journals and has been serving as an editorial member for several journals such as Journal of Obesity and Journal of Diabetes and Metabolism.
Research Interest
Obesity associated complications,Diabetic Neuropathy
Biography
Professor Pouran Faghri is a medical doctor and an exercise physiologist, She is a Professor of Health Promotion Sciences within the Department of Allied Health Sciences and Director of the University of Connecticut Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion. Additionally, she has joint appointments as Professor of Biomedical Engineering as well as Community Medicine and Health Care. Her expertise are in worksite health promotion programs, community health promotion programs, intervention strategies to reduce over weight and obesity, health promotion and secondary disability prevention, and evaluation of social determinant of health, self-care, self awareness, and decision making strategies under distressed environments. Professor Faghri’s research in obesity focuses on developing innovative intervention strategies to address overweigh and obesity at the workplace. She has used behavioral economics and contingency management as well as participatory approaches in weight loss and weight management at workplace. Her research has been continually funded by federal and private organizations. She is on the editorial boards of many journals and has more that 150 publications and presentations.
Research Interest
Health promotion design, intervention, and evaluation of work-site health promotion programs, health behavior intervention strategies, health promotion and secondary disability prevention (neuromuscular, musculoskeletal and psychological) in disabled and elderly populations, evaluation of social determinants of health, self-care, and self awareness.