Katharine Moser, Long Beach Resident, Honored by Elizabethtown College

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (11/06/2009)(readMedia)-- At Elizabethtown College Homecoming Weekend, the Distinguished Young Graduate Award was presented to Katharine Moser, Class of 2003. While Katie currently serves as an occupational therapy practitioner at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in New York City, she is most known for her passionate commitment to raising awareness of and funds for research of Huntington's Disease.

While she was a student at Elizabethtown, Katie witnessed her mother experience the debilitating declines associated with the advanced progression of the disease. Because Huntington's Disease is a genetic disorder, Katie made the decision to be tested and ultimately discovered that she, too, had the lethal gene.

Her unflinching determination to be tested and her subsequent desire to make a difference led her to a life of advocacy. So compelling is Katie's courageous story, that it was featured in The New York Times in March 2007, as well as in the series, titled "The Best of American Science Writing," by Amy Harmon.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students.

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