Department of Internal Medicine

General Internal Medicine Faculty

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Valerie Forman Hoffman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Interim Director and Co-Director, University of Iowa K12 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program

Dr. Hoffman's research interests include behavioral interventions to recognize, treat, and prevent obesity and eating disorders, the relationship between weight change and depression, telehealth interventions for weight management, psychological predicators of weight loss success, the epidemiology of eating and weight disorders, the impact of mental disorder comorbidity on health outcomes, disclosure of medical errors, and HIV screening and prevention.

Honors, Awards, and Organizations

• VA HSR&D Merit Review Entry Program (MREP) Career Development Awardee
• National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program Award, 2003 - 2005
• Citation Award winner, Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Annual Meeting
• Journal Referee: Archives of General Psychiatry, American Journal of Epidemiology, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Quality of Life Research, Archives of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Psychiatry
• Member: Society of Behavioral Medicine, American Public Health Association, Academy of Eating Disorders

Recent Publications

1. Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Yankey, J.W., Hillis, S.L, Wolinsky, F.D., Wallace, R.B., Weight and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults: Direction of Influence. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (in press).
2. Riley, W.R., Schumann, M., Forman-Hoffman, V., Mihm, P., Applegate, B., Asif, O. Responses of Practicing Psychologists to a Website Developed to Promote Empirically Supported Treatments . Professional Psychology: Research and Practice (in press).
3. Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Philibert, R. Low TSH and High T4 Levels Are Indicative of Current Depression in NHANES III. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (in press).
4. Sung, S., Forman-Hoffman, V., Wilson, M.C., Cram, P.  Direct reporting of laboratory test results to patients by mail to enhance patient safety.   Journal of General Internal Medicine (in press).
5. Jones, E.W., Kaldjian, L.C., Forman-Hoffman, V.L. Factors Affecting Gastrostomy Feeding Tube Use in Dementia: a Structured Literature Review Alzheimer's and Dementia (in press).
6. Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Little, A.E., Wahls, T.L. Rates of and Barriers to Obesity Management: A Pilot Study of Primary Care Clinicians in the Veteran's Affairs Healthcare System. BMC Family Practice, 7 (1): 35 (epub ahead of print).
7. Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Ruffin, T, Schultz, S.K. (2006). Basal Metabolic Rate in Anorexia Nervosa Patients: Using Appropriate Predictive Equations during the Refeeding Process. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 18 (2): 123-127.
8. Riley, W.T., Carson, S.C., Martin, N. Behar, A., Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Jerome, A. (2005). Initial Feasibility of a Researcher Configurable Computerized Self-Monitoring System. Computers in Human Behavior, 21 (6): 1005-1018.
9. Forman-Hoffman, V., Carney, C., Sampson, T., Peloso, P., Woolson, R.F., Black, D., Doebbeling, B.N. (2005). Mental Health Comorbidity Prevalence, Patterns, and Impact on Quality of Life Among Gulf War I Veterans. Quality of Life Research, 14 (10) : 2303-2314.
10. Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Riley W.R., Pici, M.A. (2005). Impact of September 11th tragedy on smoking and relapse rates. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19 (3): 277-283.
11. Swenson, W.T., Wooldridge, J.E., Lynch, C.F., Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Chrischilles, E., Link, B.K. (2005). Improved survival of follicular lymphoma patients in the United States. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 22 (23): 5019-26.
12. Forman-Hoffman, V.L. (2004). Prevalence of disordered eating behaviors among U.S. high school students. Eating Behaviors, 5 (4): 325-36.
13. Latkin CA, Forman-Hoffman VL, D'Souza G, Knowlton AR. (2004). Associations between medical service use and HIV risk among HIV-positive drug users in Baltimore, MD. AIDS Care; 16(7):901-8.
14. Black, D.W., Carney, C.P., Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Letuchy, E., Peloso, P., Woolson, R.F., Doebbeling, B.N. (2004). Depression in Veterans of the First Gulf War and Comparable Military Controls. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 16: 53-61.
15. Latkin, C.A., Hua, W.W., Forman, V.L. (2003). The relationship between social network characteristics and exchanging sex for drugs or money among drug users in Baltimore, Maryland, International Journal of STDs and AIDS, 14(11):770-5.
16. Latkin, C.A., Forman, V.L., Knowlton, A.K., Sherman, S. (2003). Norms, Social Networks, and HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Among Urban Disadvantaged Drug Users, Social Science and Medicine, 56(3): 465-476.
17. Forman, V.L. & Morello, P. (2003) Weight concerns, post-experimental smoking, and perceived difficulty in quitting in Argentinean adolescents, Eating Behaviors, 4:41-52.
18. Latkin, C.A., Knowlton, A.K., Forman, V.L., Hoover, D.R., Schroeder, J.R., Hachey, M., Celentano, D.D. (2001). Injection Drug Users' Disclosure of HIV Seropositive Status to Network Members" AIDS and Behavior, 5(4):297-305.
19. Latkin, C.A. & Forman, V.L. (2001). Patterns of needle acquisition and sociobehavioral correlates of needle exchange program attendance in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Journal of AIDS, 27(4):393-404.

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