May 18, 2010, 6:00 pm
The Neurosciences Institute 

The Harvard Club of San Diego's Spring Event: 
"The Changing American Family"

Come enjoy a lively panel discussion about the changing nature of the American family. Our panelists study the family from a variety of different perspectives. Light refreshments will be served.

Rebecca Klatch, PhD

Rebecca Klatch received her B.A. in sociology from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She taught at Washington University and at UC Santa Cruz before coming to UCSD. She is the author of Women of the New Right (Temple University Press, 1987) and A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s (University of California press, 1999). Her primary research interests concern the formation of world views and social and political consciousness and the construction of gender and racial identities. Her current research focuses on the construction of masculinity among multi-racial men.

Devon Smith, PhD

Devon Smith received her BA in sociology from Emory in 2001 and her PhD from UCSD in 2008. She is an Instructor at UCSD with expertise in social movements, marriage, gender and sexuality. She completed a dissertation on the Same-Sex Marriage Movement and Counter-Movement.

Lori Arnold, MD

Dr. Arnold earned her M.D. degree from the University of Cayey Medical School, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Her Post-Graduate Residency studies were completed in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA, while her Fellowship training was done in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Dr. Arnold then went on to complete her In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) training at Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, VA, the first IVF center in the United States.

Dr. Arnold is currently the Medical Director and Founder of California Center for Reproductive Medicine and has been practicing in San Diego since 2003. She previously served as the Medical Director at California Center for Reproductive Medicine in Ventura and Santa Barbara. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility.

Other past positions include serving for three years as the Associate Director at The Fertility and IVF Center in Miami, FL, and being a member of the clinical teaching faculties at the University of Miami Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility.

Evelyn De Villiers, PhD

As a Christian psychologist, Dr. de Villiers is most interested in providing a warm, safe, sensitive and empathic environment for clients, while at the same time supporting, challenging, encouraging and sometimes confronting their current issues at hand. She is a member in good standing with the American Psychological Association, San Diego Psychological Association, Christian Care Network and AACC, Stepfamily Association of America as a Professional Affiliate.

As a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. de Villiers enjoys working with adults, adolescents, couples and families. Special factors unique to her practice: she specializes in divorce, remarriage and blended families; trained to work with trauma and PTSD using a therapeutic technique called EMDR.

Location: The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive
San Diego, CA 92121

Time: 6:00 PM Hosted Reception;  7:00 PM Presentation

Price: $20 Members, $25 Non-members and guests

RSVP at https://post.harvard.edu/olc/pub/HAA/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2248066

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