Steve Farrell, PhD, FACSM
Health and Fitness Expert
Steve Farrell, PhD, FACSM. Dr. Farrell recently retired after a 41-year career at The Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas. He earned his doctorate degree in exercise physiology with a secondary emphasis in nutrition from Texas Woman’s University. His master’s and bachelor’s degrees were earned at the University of South Carolina and Springfield College, respectively. Farrell spent most of his career at Cooper in the Education Division, where he and his colleagues taught a variety of health and fitness workshops to tens of thousands of students, with a heavy emphasis on training fitness leaders in public safety and all branches of the U.S. military. Under his direction, The Cooper Institute became one of the first organizations to receive national accreditation for their Personal Trainer Certification in 2006. Farrell also served as a consultant for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The latter portion of his career was spent in the Research Division, where he published numerous papers from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study (CCLS) data base. He has been a frequent presenter at the national meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.
