Sarah Becker Hortsch, Ph.D., MSW, RN


Clinical Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Studies Program
Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences
Room 2336 NURS1

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482

Telephone: 734-255-0491
Fax: 734-936-5525

Interests

  • Mental Health
  • Psychedelic Therapies
  • Evolutionary Medicine and Bladder Health

Teaching

Dr. Hortsch teaches both didactic and clinical courses in the undergraduate program. Her teaching pedagogy centers around developing critical thinking skills in a supportive and motivating learning environment. She challenges students to reflect on their biases and assumptions and believes that her passion for teaching and the nursing profession is instrumental in motivating her students.

Affiliations / Service

  • Member, Sigma Theta Tau, Rho Chapter, 2003-present
  • Member, American Nurses Asociation, 2018-present
  • Member, International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, 2019-present
  • Member, University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity, 2020-present
  • Member, Organization of Psychedelic and Entheogenic Nurses, 2023-present

Education

  • BA, Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1984
  • BS, Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 2003
  • MSW, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1990
  • Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2018

Publication Highlights

  • Stuart, J, Weston, D, Lohr, N, Benjamin, J, Becker, S, Vorus, N, & Silk, K (1990). Object relations in borderlines, depressives, and normals: An examination of human responses on the Rorschach. Journal of Personality Assessment.  55(1&2): 296-318.

  • Ford, B, Dalton, V, Lantz, P, Lori, J, Noll, T, Rodseth, S, Ransom, S, Siefert, K. (2005). Racial disparities in birth outcomes: Poverty, discrimination, and the life course of African American women. African American Research Perspectives. 11 (1), 48-64.

  • Miller, JM, Rodseth, SB, Ying, G (2011). Cluster analysis of intake, output, and voiding habits collected from diary data. Nursing Research. Mar-April; 60(2): 115-23.

  • Miller, JM, Garcia, CE, Hortsch, SB, Ying, G, Schimpf, MO (2016).  Does instruction to eliminate coffee, tea, alcohol, carbonated, and artificially sweetened beverages improve lower urinary tract symptoms: A Prospective Trial. Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing.43 (1):69-79.

  • Miller, J.M., Schimpf, M., Hawthorne, K., Hortsch, S.B., Garcia, C., & Smith, A.R. (2022). Fluids affecting bladder urgency and lower urinary symptoms: Results from a randomized controlled trial.
    International Urogynecology Journal, 33(5), 1329-1345.

  • Hortsch, SB, Smith, AR, Schimpf, MO, Miller, JM. (2022). The Beverage Intake Explosion: An evolutionary mismatch proof of concept. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. Submitted for review.

  • Lukacz, E.S., Fok, C.S., M. Bryant, M., Rodriguez-Ponciano, Casas-maya, M., Meister, M., Mueller, Lewis, C.E., Lowder, J., Smith, A.L., Stapleton, A., Ayala, A., Pakpahan, Horstch, S., Putnam, S., Rudser, K., Song, S., Knight, R., Brubaker, L., for the PLUS Research Consortium. (2023) Feasibility of home collection for urogenital microbiome samples. (Accepted, Urogynecology)

  • Brady, S.S., Klusaritz, H.A., Falke, C., Gahagan, S., Hebert-Beirne,J., Hortsch, S.B., Kenton, K.,Lewis, C.E., Lipman, T.H., McGwin, G., Nodora, J.N., Norton, J.M., Nuscis, K., Rodriguez-Poinciana, D.P., Rudser, K.D., Sutcliff, S., Wilson-Powers, E., Cunningham, S.D. (2024) Ethnic and racial social identity, socioeconomic position, and women’s bladder health. (Under review)

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