Dr. Amar Kanekar, assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences, had his article, “Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis,” published in The International Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Kanekar also has a presentation accepted for the upcoming Society for Public Health Education midyear meeting 2012 titled “Consequences of ‘Black Friday’ Bargains on Consumers: Is this an Emerging Epidemic of Violence in our Communities?”

Before coming to UALR, Kanekar was an assistant professor in the Department of Health Studies at East Stroudsburg University. He also was a graduate assistant in the Department of Health Promotion and Education at the University of Cincinnati and in the Department of Public Health at Western Kentucky University.