Sent on behalf of Interim Provost Jeremy Teitelbaum:
I am delighted to announce that, in consultation with Vice President for Research Radenka Maric, I have appointed Professor Amy Gorin, of the Department of Psychological Sciences, to be the next director of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy or InCHIP. Professor Gorin will serve as director designate over the summer and will take on the full-time directorship at the start of the academic year.
Professor Gorin received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown Medical School’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center. At UConn, Dr. Gorin founded the multidisciplinary Obesity Research Interest Group, which now includes over 170 members, all of whom share a common interest in understanding, preventing, and treating obesity. Her own research focuses on developing innovative treatment strategies to improve long-term weight loss and maintenance with an emphasis on motivational and environmental processes that impact weight management. Her recent NIH funded work examines the efficacy of a couples-based approach to weight loss and a peer-based weight loss maintenance program. In addition to her own research, Dr. Gorin has invested significant time in mentoring her graduate trainees and in supporting faculty development and team science initiatives at UConn, and has directed the Training and Development Core at InCHIP.
I would like to thank the search committee, chaired by Professors Eva Lefkowitz and Victor Hesselbrock, and including Professors Deborah Fein, Marlene Schwartz, Michael Copenhaver, and Seth Kalichman, for their efforts in bringing this search to a successful conclusion.
I would also like to thank outgoing director Jeff Fisher, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences, for his very successful leadership of InCHIP over the past years.
Please join me in congratulating Professor Gorin and wishing her well in her new position.
For more information, contact: Office of the Provost at provost@uconn.edu