Assistant Professor
Favorite occupations: Walking, reading, writing, strength training and conditioning, bike riding, watching tv and movies, spending time with his dog, woodworking
Dr. Imamshah received his entry-level Masters of Occupational Therapy and his post-professional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. Dr. Imamshah’s research focuses on promoting health and well-being, reducing health disparities, and increasing health equity among rural and medically underserved populations. This work includes developing, implementing, and evaluating theoretically-informed, culturally-appropriate, and occupation-based health promotion programs integrated into occupational therapy services.
Dr. Imamshah’s current work focuses on the development and implementation of health promotion programs that emphasize the prescription of culturally-relevant physical activities and that address the social and environmental determinants of health behaviors. His work also includes the critical interrogation of concepts, language, frameworks, models, and theories that are used to guide health promotion practices. Finally, he is in the process of developing and testing an occupation-based health promotion practice model and occupation-based movement screening and assessment protocols.
Dr. Imamshah has been a clinician since 2011 and has worked primarily with young to older adults in inpatient, long-term, and outpatient settings. His current clinical interest is in health promotion and prevention approaches to health and well-being. Dr. Imamshah is a Certified Stroke Rehabilitation Specialist, a Certified Kinesio Taping® Practitioner, a USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach, and has advanced training in movement-based approaches to evaluation and intervention.
Clinical Interests
Adults; older adults; health promotion and prevention approaches to occupational therapy services; clinical research
Research Areas
Health promotion (theory, practice models, program development, rural and medically underserved populations, concepts and language)
Physical activity (perspectives, routines, interventions)
Movement (development of occupation-based screening and evaluation tools, perspectives, theory, interventions)
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