Dr. Thosar received a professional bachelor's degree in occupational therapy from Maharashtra University of Health Science in India and a master's degree in Movement Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After two years of practicing occupational therapy and cardiac rehabilitation, he returned to get his doctorate and earned a Ph.D. in Human Performance from Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. He pursued postdoctoral training at OHSU in Dr. Shea's laboratory from 2014-18. During this time, his work was supported by a fellowship from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, an early clinical investigator award from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Thosar secured a faculty position at OHSU and started his research group in 2018. His group studies the interactions between sleep, circadian rhythms, and physical inactivity/activity related to cardiovascular disease in people with chronic disease.

He is an associate professor at the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and holds secondary appointments in the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health. His laboratory is currently funded by a five-year NIH R01 grant.

Dr. Thosar is a culturally aware mentor. He is a graduate of the OHSU mentoring academy based on CIMER's (Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research) mentoring curriculum designed to address the National Institute of General Medical Sciences' mentoring expectations.

To contact Dr. Thosar for training opportunities, email thosar@ohsu.edu