Dept. of Health Services
Program Affiliations
Program Affiliations
Leila Kozak
Acting Assistant Professor
Associate Health Fellow
Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System
Research Interests:
Complementary and integrative medicine; supportive care in oncology; palliative/end-of-life care; international palliative care; optimal healing environments; Planetree and other patient-centered, and relationship-centered care models; spirituality and intention in healing
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Contact Information
email: leilak@uw.edu
address:
1100 Olive Way, Suite 1400
Seattle, WA 98101
voice: 206-277-1548
fax: 206-764-2935
address:
1100 Olive Way, Suite 1400
Seattle, WA 98101
voice: 206-277-1548
fax: 206-764-2935
Education
PhD
Saybrook Graduate School, 2007 (Psychology)
MSc Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas, 1988 (Molecular Biology, Physiology)
BSc Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas (Biological Sciences)
MSc Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas, 1988 (Molecular Biology, Physiology)
BSc Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas (Biological Sciences)
Recent Publications
Collinge W, Kahn J, Walton T, Kozak L, Bauer-Wu S, Fletcher K, Yarnold P, Soltysik R. Touch, Caring, and Cancer: randomized controlled trial of a multimedia caregiver education program. Support Care Cancer. 2012 Dec 21. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23262808 PMCID: PMC3612588
Kozak L, Boynton L, Bentley J, Bezy E. Introducing spirituality, religion and culture curricula in the psychiatry residency programme. Med Humanit. 2010 Jun;36(1):48-51. PMID: 21393277
Downey L, Engelberg RA, Standish LJ, Kozak L, Lafferty WE. Three lessons from a randomized trial of massage and meditation at end of life: patient benefit, outcome measure selection, and design of trials with terminally ill patients. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2009 Aug-Sep;26(4):246-53. Epub 2009 Apr 24. PMID: 19395701 PMCID: PMC2855225
Downey L, Diehr P, Standish LJ, Patrick DL, Kozak L, Fisher D, Congdon S, Lafferty WE. Might massage or guided meditation provide "means to a better end"? Primary outcomes from an efficacy trial with patients at the end of life. J Palliat Care. 2009 Summer;25(2):100-8. PMID: 19678461 PMCID: PMC2858762
Wu C, Weber W, Kozak L, Standish LJ, Ojemann JG, Ellenbogen RG, Avellino AM. A survey of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) awareness among neurosurgeons in Washington State. J Altern Complement Med. 2009 May;15(5):551-5. PMID: 19450166
Kozak L, Boynton L, Bentley J, Bezy E. Introducing spirituality, religion and culture curricula in the psychiatry residency programme. Med Humanit. 2010 Jun;36(1):48-51. PMID: 21393277
Downey L, Engelberg RA, Standish LJ, Kozak L, Lafferty WE. Three lessons from a randomized trial of massage and meditation at end of life: patient benefit, outcome measure selection, and design of trials with terminally ill patients. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2009 Aug-Sep;26(4):246-53. Epub 2009 Apr 24. PMID: 19395701 PMCID: PMC2855225
Downey L, Diehr P, Standish LJ, Patrick DL, Kozak L, Fisher D, Congdon S, Lafferty WE. Might massage or guided meditation provide "means to a better end"? Primary outcomes from an efficacy trial with patients at the end of life. J Palliat Care. 2009 Summer;25(2):100-8. PMID: 19678461 PMCID: PMC2858762
Wu C, Weber W, Kozak L, Standish LJ, Ojemann JG, Ellenbogen RG, Avellino AM. A survey of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) awareness among neurosurgeons in Washington State. J Altern Complement Med. 2009 May;15(5):551-5. PMID: 19450166
