Susan Hickman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Senior Scholar, Center for Ethics in Health Care, OHSU

1992, B.A., Psychology, Wellesley College
1994, M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Kansas
1997, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Kansas
1998, Geropsychology Postdoctoral Fellow, Portland VAMC
2001, Certificate in Health Care Ethics, University of Washington

Clinical & Academic Interests:

SUSAN HICKMAN, Ph.D., received a BA in psychology from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1992. She attended graduate school at the University of Kansas and earned an MA in clinical psychology in 1994 and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1997. She continued her training at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center as a geropsychology postdoctroal fellow from 1997 to 1998. She is an assistant professor on the faculties of the Department of Psychiatry and the OHSU School of Nursing, and cares for elderly patients as a clinician in the OHSU GeroPsychiatry Clinic. She is also a senior scholar at the OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care and a co-investigator in the Program of Research on Ethics and End-of-Life care.

Her research interests include clinical ethics related to end-of-life care for geriatric patients, family perceptions of pain at the end of life, and pain management in dying patients.