Pouran Fagrhi, Professor of Health Promotion and Allied Health Sciences at UConn will discuss “Worksite Weight Loss Intervention Using Contingency Management of Financial Incentives for Risky Employees” at the CHIP Center on Thursday, April 18, 2013, from 12:30 – 1:30 This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Kinesiology at the NEAG School of Education.
Dr. Pouran Faghri is a medical doctor and an exercise physiologist with expertise in health promotion, wellness, disease, and disability prevention for healthy individuals as well as neurologically impaired and those with chronic conditions and elderly. Dr. Faghri’s areas of interest are: work-site health promotion programs (design/intervention/evaluation), community health promotion programs (design/intervention/evaluation), health related behavior, intervention strategies, health promotion and secondary disability prevention (neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and physiological) in disabled and elderly populations, and evaluation of social determinant of health, self-care, self-awareness, and decision making strategies under uncertain or distributed environments.
The lecture will be in Video Conference Room 204 on the second floor of Ryan at 2006 Hillside Road at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.You can also view this talk streamed live during or after the lecture at the following link: http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-4-18-13.
Lunch will be provided for those that indicate their preference ahead of time from a platter of sandwich and wrap selections, including: Roast beef, roasted red peppers, Monterey jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, horseradish mayonnaise on sourdough roll; Chicken salad with apples, walnuts, lettuce on a sourdough roll; and Hummus with lettuce, tomato, assorted shredded vegetables and cheese on a wheat hard roll. All selections come with a piece of fresh fruit and bottled water. Please let Stacy Leeds know your preference by Monday, April 15 at 10:30 am sharp by calling her at 860 486-5917,
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