Education
B.A. (S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton)
M.A. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
M.P.H. (The George Washington University)
Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Harvard Medical School; New England Deaconess Hospital)
Cancer Prevention Fellow (National Cancer Institute, U.S.A.)
Certificate in Conflict Management and Mediation (Conrad Grebel University College)
Contact information
Office: BMH 2321
Phone: (519) 888-4567, ext. 33098
E-mail: lhgoetz@uwaterloo.ca
Teaching interests
- Disease Processes; Stress and Behavioural Immunology; Cancer Prevention
- Health Communication; Public Health
Courses
HLTH 341 Immunobiology and Public Health
HLTH 461 Psychoneuroimmunology
PHS 608 Health and Risk Communication in Public Health
Research interests
- In Public Health: health literacy, risk communication, consumer health informatics, mass media and health education
- In Biohealth: physical activity and cancer prevention, exercise immunology, behavioural immunology, lymphocyte apoptosis
Selected publications
In Health and Risk Communication:
- Textbook in Preparation: Hoffman-Goetz L, Donelle L, Ahmed R. Health Literacy in Canada: A Primer for Students. CSPI, Toronto.
- Thomson M.D., Hoffman-Goetz, L. Application of the health literacy framework to diet-related conversations of older immigrant women to Canada. Health Promotion International 2012; 27(1): 33-44.
- McWhirter J., Todd, L., Hoffman-Goetz, L. Comparing written and oral measures of comprehension of cancer information by English-as-a-second-language Chinese immigrant women to Canada. Journal of Cancer Education 2011; 26(4): 734-739.
- Thomson M.D., Hoffman-Goetz L. Cancer information comprehension by English-as-a-second-language immigrant women. Journal of Health Communication 2011; 16(1): 17-33.
- Abdelmutti N., Hoffman-Goetz L. Risk messages about HPV, cervical cancer, and the HPV vaccine Gardasil: a content analysis of Canadian and U.S. national newspaper articles. Women & Health 2009: 49(5): 422-440.
- Thomson M.D., Hoffman-Goetz L. Defining and measuring acculturation: A systematic review of public health studies with Hispanic populations in the United States. Social Science & Medicine 2009; 69(7): 218-224.
- Hoffman-Goetz L., Thomson M., Donelle L. Reasons for declining colorectal cancer screening by older Canadians: a pilot study. Journal of Cancer Education 2008; 23(1): 32-36.
- Thomson M., Hoffman-Goetz L. Readability and cultural sensitivity of web-based patient decision aids for cancer screening and treatment: a systematic review. Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine 2007; 32(4): 263-286.
In Biohealth:
- Packer N., Hoffman-Goetz L. Training preserves the intestinal cytokine response to acute exercise in older mice. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 2012; 44(4): 591-599.
- Pervaiz N., Hoffman-Goetz L. Freewheel training alters mouse hippocampal cytokines. International Journal of Sports Medicine 2011; 32(11): 889-895.
- Hoffman-Goetz L., Pervaiz N., Packer N., Guan G. Freewheel training decreases pro- and increases anti-inflammatory cytokine expression in mouse intestinal lymphocytes. Brain, Behavior & Immunity 2010; 24(7): 1105-1115.
- Hoffman-Goetz L., Pervaiz N., Guan J. Voluntary exercise training in mice increases the expression of antioxidant enzymes and decreases the expression of TNF-alpha in intestinal lymphocytes. Brain, Behavior & Immunity 2009; 23(4): 498-506.
- Spagnuolo P.A., Hoffman-Goetz L. Lactoferrin effect on lymphocyte cytokines and apoptosis is independent of exercise. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2008; 40(6): 1013-1021.
- Hoffman-Goetz L., Spagnuolo P.A., Guan J. Repeated exercise in mice alters expression of IL-10 and TNF-alpha in intestinal lymphocytes. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2008; 22(2): 195-199.
- Pederson B.K., Hoffman-Goetz L. Exercise and the immune system: Regulation, integration, and adaptation. Physiological Reviews, 2000; 8: 1055-1081.
Selected professional activities and networks
Visit my research page on Consumer Health Informatics at:
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/chirp/
