Trisha Gura

Areas of Expertise

Writing; Psychology; Science; Medicine; Eating Disorders

Email: tgura@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Trisha will write magazine articles for popular press, lecture, and conduct interactive workshops that will allow participants to explore their own biases about age and eating disorders 

Trisha will also continue on with her science medical journalism writing in articles such as that recently commissioned by Prevention magazine about depression in late life.

Biography

Trisha Gura is the author of Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women (Harper Collins, May 2007) and Body: the Complete Human (National Geographic, October 2007). She is a former molecular biologist and reporter for the Chicago Tribune. A Knight Science Journalism Fellow, she currently writes freelance for publications as Science, Nature, and Scientific American Mind, as well as Child, the Yoga Journal and Health. She podcasts for Scientific American and blogs about body image issues for Huffington Post, Gurze News and on her own website.

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University

B.A., Xavier University

Representative Publications

Gura, Trisha. Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Daniel, Patricia, Lisa Stein and Trisha Gura.  Body: The Complete Human.  National Geographic: 2007.

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