Department of Internal Medicine

General Internal Medicine Faculty

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

Valerie Forman Hoffman photo

Education:
Lehigh University, B.A.

Postgraduate Education:
Yale University, M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.

Recent Publications

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).
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).
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).
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