Lydia Kang, M.D., 1989 to Speak at Sarah Crane Cohen Lecture
Roland Park Country School is thrilled to welcome author, physician and RPCS alumna Lydia Kang, M.D., 1989 as the featured speaker for our Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Lecture on Wednesday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. Please join us as Dr. Kang discusses her latest book, Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them, which will be published in mid-February and is a follow up to her 2017 book, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. During her talk, Dr. Kang will provide a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in popular ideas, phenomena and widely held beliefs that have been disproven by science.
Dr. Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Dr. Kang is also a practicing physician and associate professor of Internal Medicine who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Great Weather for Media. She lives in Omaha with her husband and three children. Learn more about Dr. Kang, including how RPCS shaped her as a person here.
Dr. Kang’s books will be on sale in the Harris Center on March 26 and a book signing will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public, so please feel free to invite friends who may also be interested in this topic. You can learn more about this year’s Sarah Crane Cohen Lecture here. We hope to see you there!
About the Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Lecture
The Crane Lecture is generously funded by an endowment established at Roland Park Country School in 1993 by the late Charles Crane, a Baltimore businessman and philanthropist. The fund was created in loving memory of Crane’s mother, Sarah Crane Cohen, a warm and compassionate woman who possessed a genuine fondness for all people. The Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities endowment brings a distinguished speaker to campus each year.
The Crane Lecture is generously funded by an endowment established at Roland Park Country School in 1993 by the late Charles Crane, a Baltimore businessman and philanthropist. The fund was created in loving memory of Crane’s mother, Sarah Crane Cohen, a warm and compassionate woman who possessed a genuine fondness for all people. The Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities endowment brings a distinguished speaker to campus each year.