Cheryl Koopman

Administrative Appointments

• Member, Executive Committee, PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium (2006 - 2012)
• Member, Program 9, Population Science, Stanford University Cancer Center (2005 - 2012)
• Member, Caucus of Concerned Scholars: Committee on Ethics and Morality, International Society of Political Psychology (2005 - 2012)
• Associate Editor, Associate Editor, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation (2004 - 2012)
• Member of International Advisory Board, The British Journal of Health Psychology (2004 - 2012)

Honors and Awards

• At Home Group Video Calling to Support Rural Women, California Breast Cancer Research Program (8/11-1/13)
• Multi-Method Examination of Diverse Manifestations of Lyme Disease, Anonymous (12/11-10/12)
• Multi-Method Examination of Diverse Manifestations of Lyme Disease, John and Nancy Jo Cappetta Foundation (10/10-10/12)
• Multi-Method Examination of Diverse Manifestations of Lyme Disease, Turn the Corner Foundation (5/08-4/12)
• Multi-Method Examination of Diverse Manifestations of Lyme Disease, California Lyme Disease Association (4/08-4/12)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Community and International Work

• TeachAIDS, Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 
• Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support, 12 rural counties in N. California 

Internet Links

• Stanford Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences Laboratory

Current Research Interests

Dr. Koopman's current research includes the following:

1) As Principal Investigator, collaborating with experts in Lyme disease and biostatistics to understand diverse manifestations of Lyme disease and their relationships to demographic and medical characteristics and diagnostic tests.

2) As Principal Investigator, collaborating with a Stanford-based biostatistician and project coordinator and community-based partners at the Sierra Streams Institute, Nevada City, to develop and evaluate interventions for delivering support to improve quality of life among women in rural communities who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

3) Collaborating (as Co-PI) with Dr. David Spiegel (PI) and colleagues on a large scale study of the relationships among sleep disturbance, diurnal stress hormone patterns, and breast cancer survival.

4) Collaborating (as Co-Investigator) with Dr. Cheryl Gore-Felton (PI) and colleagues on research to evaluate psychotherapy interventions to reduce chronic stress as well as enhance positive health behaviors to reduce morbidity and mortality among patients coping with chronic medical illness.

Clinical Trials

• Efficacy of Group Intervention to Reduce Stress Symptoms Recruiting
• Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support Groups (Main Study) Completed
• Sleep, Circadian Hormonal Dysregulation, and Breast Cancer Survival No longer recruiting

Publications

• Utilization of psychiatric services among low-income HIV-infected patients with psychiatric co-morbidity Soller, M., Kharrazi, N., Prentiss, D., Cummings, S., Balmas, G., Koopman, C., & Israelski, D.. AIDS Care. DOI:10.1080/09540121.2011.565024.
• Attachment style and coping in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among adults living with HIV/AIDS. Gore-Felton C, Ginzburg K, Chartier M, Gardner W, Agnew-Blais J, McGarvey E, Weiss E, Koopman C. J Behav Med. 2012
• Ethical and scientific considerations of traumatic stress in the international context. Koopman, C., Wernimont, N.. In Monroe, K. R. (Ed.), Science, ethics, and politics: Conversations and investigations.. 2012: 163-184
• Recruiting Women with Breast Cancer in Rural Communities for a Community Initiated Clinical Trial: Effective Strategies. Aylward A, Castillo A, Parsons R, Kreshka MA, Ferrier S, von Friederichs-Fitzwater M, Graddy K, Koopman C. Breast J. 2012
• Relationships Among Childhood Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Dissociation in Men Living with HIV/AIDS. Kamen C, Bergstrom J, Koopman C, Lee S, Gore-Felton C. J Trauma Dissociation. 2012; 13 (1): 102-14