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First Name: Matt

Last Name: Bitsko

Position Title: Assistant Professor

Job Responsibilities: Combination of Research and Patient Care

Education/Training: Psychology

About Me/My interests: Psychological and cognitive late effects of childhood cancer; Survivorship; Interventions and care for the patient and family who has relapsed; Transition to survivorship; Identity status and formation for adolescents with chronic illness; Treatment adherence.

Training Opportunities: Yes

My Contact Information:

Address: 1101 East Marshall Street, P.O. Box 98012, Richmond, VA 23298-0121

Email: mbitsko@mcvh-vcu.edu

Phone: 804.828.9048

Topics of Interest for Collaboration: Adjustment to childhood cancer; Survivorship; Relapsed Care; Identity Formation.

Publications that may be of interest to others:  

Bitsko, M., Stern, M., Dillon, R., & Russell, C., Laver, J. (2008). Happiness and

Time Perspective as Potential Mediators of Quality of Life and Depression in Adolescent Cancer.  Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 50(3), 613-619.

Foster, R.H., Stern, M., Russell, C., Shivy, V., Bitsko, M., Dillon, R., M., Klosky,

J., & Godder, K. (in press). Examining the influence of optimism and perceived health vulnerability on parent-adolescent attachment among survivors of pediatric cancer. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology.

Stern, M., Krivoy, E., Foster, R. Bitsko, M., Toren, A., & Ben Arush, M. (2010).

Psychosocial Functioning and Career Decision-Making in Israeli Adolescent Cancer Survivors. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 55,708-713 

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