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Valerie Forman Hoffman, PhD, MPH
Investigator
MPH Yale University, 1999
PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2002
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Dr. Hoffman is a Core Investigator with CRIISP and an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Associate Director of the K30 Iowa Scholars in Clinical Investigation Program. Dr. Hoffman was recently awarded a VA HSR&D Merit Review Entry Program Career Development Award, entitled “Improving Recognition and Management of Obesity in Primary Care”, that began in June of 2005. The project will identify patient and provider-level barriers to the prevention and treatment of obesity in veterans. This knowledge will then be used to develop effective strategies to overcome these barriers and improve weight-related counseling and services to veterans. Dr. Hoffman is also interested in the relationship between weight disorders, depression and other psychopathology, disability, and other medical comorbidities.
Research Interests
Behavioral interventions to recognize, treat, and prevent obesity and eating disorders
Epidemiology of eating and weight disorders
Impact of mental disorder comorbidity on health outcomes
Depression management in primary care
Disclosure of medical errors
Research Projects
Using Handheld Computers to Modify Exercise Behavior
Computerized Scheduling of Nicotine Nasal Spray
Development of Dissemination and Implementation Tools for the Delivery of Empirically Validated Mental Health Interventions
Web and IVR System for HIV Risk Screening and Prevention
Selected Publications
Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Peloso, P.M., Black, D.W., Letuchy, E.M., Doebbeling, B.N. (2007). Chronic Widespread Pain is Associated with Deployment to the First Gulf War and Poor Health Outcomes. The Journal of Pain, epub ahead of print.
Riley, W.R., Schumann, M., Forman-Hoffman, V., Mihm, P., Applegate, B., Asif, O. (2007). Responses of practicing psychologists to a website developed to promote empirically supported treatments. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38(1): 44-53.
Kaldjian, L.C.., Jones, E.W., Wu, B.J., Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Levi, B.,
Rosenthal, G.E. (2007). Disclosing medical errors to patients: attitudes and practices of physicians and trainees. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22: 988-996.
Sung, S., Forman-Hoffman, V., Wilson, M.C., Cram, P. (2006). Direct reporting of laboratory test results to patients by mail to enhance patient safety. Journal of General Internal Mediicne, 21(10): 1075-1076. .
Jones, E.W., Kaldjian, L.C., Forman-Hoffman, V.L. (2006). Factors affecting gastrostomy feeding tube use in dementia: a structured literature review. Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 2:234-242.
Black, D.W., Blum, N., Letuchy, E., Carney, C.P., Forman-Hoffman, V.L., Doebbeling, B.N. (2006). Borderline personality disorder and traits in Gulf War veterans: psychiatric comorbidity and quality of life along a continuum of severity. CNS Spectrums, 11(9): 680-689.
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Contact Information
VA Iowa City Health Care System
CRIISP (152)
601 Highway 6 West
Iowa City, IA 52246-2208
Phone: 319-338-0581 x7723
Facsimile: 319-887-4932
email: valerie-hoffman@uiowa.edu
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