Occupation

Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology King Saud University

Qualification
2008 – 2012: PhD, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, QUT, Australia
Thesis title: The role of intensity of interval training on fat oxidation and eating behaviour in overweight and obese men
Supervisory team:  Professor: Nuala Byrne, Neil King, Andrew Hills

Teaching Courses
Physical Fitness for work, Nutrition for sport and health, Nutrition for athletic performance and weight control, Exercise Physiology

Administrative works

• Director of Research Center at CSSPA, KSU.
• Member of Ethics of Research on Living Creature Committee at Sciences Colleges, KSU.
• Chair of Scientific Research Unit at CSSPA, KSU.

Memberships

• An ambassador of European Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ESLM) in Saudi Arabia, 2015.
• The European Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ESLM), Since July 2015.
• Clinical Exercise Physiology Association (CEPA), since September 2012.
• American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM), since September 2012.
• European College of Sport Science (ECSS), since January 2011.

Peer-reviewed papers – in the past 3 years
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shaea_Alkahtani
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nhkxulkAAAAJ&hl=en

• Alkahtani, S. A. (2017). A cross-sectional study on sarcopenia using different methods: reference values for healthy Saudi young men. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 18(1), 119.‏
• Shaea A Alkahtani, Mohammed T Al-Hariri. Hypertension and employee's health: A cross-sectional analysis in private sector at Eastern province, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal for Health Sciences, 2016/ 5, 2.
• Shaea Alkahtani. Convergent validity: Agreement between accelerometry and Global Physical Activity Questionnaire in college-age Saudi Men. BMC Research Notes (press ahead)
• SA Alkahtni, M Dalton, O Abuzaid, O Obeid… . Validation of the Leeds Food Preference Questionnaire in Arabs. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2016
• S Alkahtani, A Elkilany, M Alhariri. Association between sedentary and physical activity patterns and risk factors of metabolic syndrome in Saudi men: A cross-sectional study. BMC public health, 2015 (1), 1

Invited reviewer

• Nutrition Research, Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise,

Scientific visits

• University of Leeds - Professor Graham Finlayson
• University of Chechester - Professor Mark Willems.