Susan Holtzman PhD
Associate Professor
Psychology Department
Irving K Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UBC Okanagan
Contact Info
UBC Okanagan
3187 University Way ASC 283
Kelowna BC V1V 1V7
Tel: 250-807-8730
email: susan.holtzman@ubc.ca
IKBFASS web: Susan Holtzman
Research Lab:
visit Health Psychology Lab
- Associate Professor, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UBC Okanagan
- Lead Investigator, Health Psychology Lab, UBC Okanagan
- Psychosocial factors that influence emotional and physical adjustment to chronic health conditions
- How close relationships can help or hinder patients’ efforts to cope with their disease
- How chronic illness can impact the family
Community Health: Building a framework for community-engaged community health research and knowledge translation
Co-Leads: Kathleen Martin Ginis, Mary Jung
Co-Is: Susan Holtzman, Jonathan Little, Nelly Oelke, Charlotte Jones, Lesley Lutes, Donna Kurtz, Stephen Berg, Kathy Rush, Ross Hickey
Dates: 2017-2020
Funding: 2017 UBC Okanagan Eminence Fund
Click here to see Dr. Holtzman’s publications indexed in Google Scholar https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=487TuBoAAAAJ
Media
In small cities, men who have sex with men less likely to get tested for HIV; CBC News, June 3, 2016. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hiv-testing-small-cities-1.3615419
Reports, Presentations & Publications
Holtzman, S., Landis, L., Walsh, Z., Puterman, E., Roberts, D., & Saya-Moore, K. (2016). Predictors of HIV testing among men who have sex with men: A focus on men living outside major urban centres in Canada. AIDS Care, 28(6), 705-711. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1164288