TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The University of Alabama will host Dr. Steven D. Hollon, professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, as guest speaker for the annual Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture Friday, March 10 at 7 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall.

Hollon will discuss “Cognitive Therapy in the Treatment and Prevention of Depression.”

Hollon received his doctorate in psychology from Florida State University in 1977 and completed his clinical internship at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota where he worked until 1985. He is an active clinical investigator whose research focuses on the nature and treatment of depression. He has published extensively.

Hollon is past president of the Association for Behavior Therapy and recipient of a Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology and the George A. Miller Award for Outstanding Article from the American Psychological Association. A former director of clinical training, he maintains an active clinical practice in the context of his research studies.

The Dinoff Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the UA department of psychology and College of Arts and Sciences, is given in memory of Dr. Michael Dinoff who was a professor and director of the UA Psychology Clinic from 1963 until his death in 1982.