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
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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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