HNS is proud to recognize Dr. Joe Gorin as the December 2011 Member of the Month.
Hometown: Cambridge MA (original); recent hometown is Washington, DC
Employer: Joseph Gorin, Psy.D. & Associates
Clinical population you work with: immigrants, refugees, torture survivors, children
Research interests and/or current research projects: currently involved in research about predictors of PTSD
How did you get bitten by the Hispanic neuropsychology bug? As soon as I heard it existed, I was overjoyed after working in this area for years, without a whole lot of company.
If you had to pick one place in your current town to take a tourist where would you go and why? Adams-Morgan, because it is a neighborhood that exemplifies the multiracial, multi ethnic nature of the city and is part of the Washington tourists never see. It also has exceptionally good restaurants.
Name one thing not many people know about you? I wrote a book about my experiences as a human rights activist in Central America. It’s called “Choose Love: A Jewish-Buddhist Human Rights Activist in Central America (Parallax Press, 1993).We successfully marketed the book to the Jewish-Buddhist Central America human rights crowd– they both bought the book.
What is something you’ve won and how did you win it? Recently won the Florence Mintz Alumni Award from Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology for my work in the immigrant and refugee community.
If given a choice to skip work for a day, how would you spend the day? With my wife and kids, at the beach.