Health Psychology, Behavioral Medicine, Stress, Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

• Dr. Krantz is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at USUHS. During his career as a health psychologist, he has conducted interdisciplinary research on the role of psychological factors in cardiovascular disease, and the effects of psychosocial stress on health. The focus of this research has been on the effects of acute and chronic stress as trigger of coronary heart disease events, and he has published more than 200 scientific and professional papers in these areas. (Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZE2CdJ0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). Current interests include relationships of PTSD to cardiovascular disease and other physical health problems, with an emphasis on PTSD as a "whole body" systemic disorder, rather than as a purely mental health problem.
  
  Dr. Krantz was formerly Chair of the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at USUHS between 1999-2014, and was one of a group of founders of the USU Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) and CDP Principal Investigator between 2006-2015. In the past, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Health Psychology, president of the Health Psychology Division of APA, and president the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He has been active in graduate education, and has supervised 25 doctoral dissertations in Medical and Clinical Psychology, and trained 11 post-doctoral fellows.
  
  Career Highlights and Research Projects:
• Psychological Scale: The KRANTZ HEALTH OPINION SURVEY (KHOS) SCALE measures healthcare treatment preferences for self-care and information. It is freely available for research; prior permission from the author is NOT needed as long as the validation article by Krantz et al. (1980) is cited. The KHOS scale and its original scale development article are found at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318661272_Copy_of_Krantz_Health_Opinion_Survey_KHOS_Scale_DOI_1013140RG221274670.
• The BETRHEART STUDY (Behavioral Triggers of Heart Failure), examines psychological and biological antedents of hospitalizations, mortality, and worsened functional status in heart failure patients. Reprints of articles from the BETRHEART study are posted on ResearchGate here: https://www.researchgate.net/project/BETRHEART
• To read about PTSD as a systemic disorder and the "systemic model" of PTSD and physical health, see Krantz DS, Shank LM, Goodie JL. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a Systemic Disorder: Pathways to Cardiovascular Disease. (PMC full text at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124241/ ).

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