Afrooz Afghani, PhD, MPH, is currently an Associate Professor of Health Sciences at TUI in Southern California. Dr. Afghani completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at UC Irvine and her master’s degree in Public Health at UCLA. She then earned her PhD in a highly competitive five year program of Biokinesiology at USC, where she also completed two years of postdoctoral research in Epidemiology at the Keck School of Medicine.
Dr. Afghani is actively involved in several NIH-funded research projects with interest in the factors that influence bone acquisition, maintenance, and loss in healthy or diseased children, adults, and the elderly of multi-ethnicities. She collaborates with researchers and clinicians at USC, investigating factors influencing bone mass of overweight, obese, and type 2 diabetic children. Also, with Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, and co-investigators at UCSD, Dr. Afghani works on the osteoporosis component of the Rancho Bernardo Study (RBS), first established in 1972 that includes follow-up studies of more than 1000 postmenopausal women and elderly men.
Dr. Afghani has first-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked medical journals, including the American Journal of Hypertension, Diabetes Care, Calcified Tissue International, and Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. She has been an invited contributor of several book chapters and monographs. In addition, she is on the honorary Editorial Board of Clinical Medicine: Pediatrics, is an editorial reviewer for more than 10 different peer-reviewed scientific journals, and a grant reviewer for the non-profit pediatric funding agency, the Thrasher Research Fund.
Dr. Afghani has made numerous presentations at national and international meetings of professional organizations, including the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the American Society for Bone & Mineral Research (ASBMR), the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), the European Obesity Society (EOS), and the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS).
In the last 7 years, Dr. Afghani has taught in the areas of physiology, pathology, nutrition and exercise epidemiology, statistics and research methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both classroom (UCLA and USC) and online (TUI) settings. She has mentored graduate students in all phases of their doctoral programs and has served on PhD dissertation committees and various other university-wide committees.
Away from her research and teaching commitments, Dr. Afghani enjoys traveling, yoga and pilates, photography, and reading non-fiction. She resides in Irvine, California.
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