Lecture on Obesity to be Held at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Dr. Amy Gorin will deliver the annual Katherine A. Henry '86 Memorial Lecture on Monday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. Gorin's lecture is free and open to the public.

Gorin is assistant professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School, where she works on behavioral approaches to the problem of obesity. She will speak on the topic, "Supersized Nation: America's Obesity Epidemic."

A 1994 graduate of Holy Cross, Gorin earned her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2000.

This lecture is part of the Katherine A. Henry '86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women's Health Issues. Henry's parents endowed the lecture series in memory of their daughter who died in 1997.