Sarah Deemer

Faculty, Kinesiology Health Promotion and Recreation

Physical Education Building

Sarah.Deemer@unt.edu

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Dr. Sarah Deemer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation at the University of North Texas. Dr. Deemer received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Kinesiology/Exercise Science from the University of Texas at El Paso, and her PhD in Exercise Physiology from Texas Woman’s University in 2017. She completed an NIDDK T32 post-doctoral fellowship in the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Deemer’s research focuses on the mechanisms contributing to the development of obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Her main focus is elucidating the role adipose tissue and skeletal muscle have on metabolic health and how this process may be modified by diet and/or exercise. Additionally, she is interested in investigating the biological factors and mechanisms that underlie the increased prevalence of obesity and metabolic disease in racial and ethnic minority populations in an effort to reduce the prevalence of health disparities and improve minority health.