Kristy Freeman Woods, MD, director of the Maya Angelou Research Center of Minority Health in Winston-Salem, N.C., will present a lecture tomorrow titled “Understanding Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.”

A professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Woods has taught minority health issues at several colleges and universities.

Her research areas include sickle cell anemia and chronic disease management for low-income African American patients.

Each quarter, the medical school invites prominent minority faculty and scholars from around the country to present on topics related to minority health.

The series hopes to draw attention to health-care needs of minority groups throughout the United States.

The series is sponsored by the Student National Medical Association, the Center of Excellence and the Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation.

A reception will be held at 11:30 a.m. in the Clark Center auditorium, followed by Woods’ talk at noon.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Center of Excellence at 725-0403.