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Indiana University East Faculty: Retired and Past Faculty

Joan Esterline Lafuze

Dr. Joan Esterline Lafuze is a Professor of Biology at IU East. She earned her Ph.D. in Physiology from Indiana University in 1981, her M.S. in Physiology from Ball State University in 1975, her A.B. in Humanities from Indiana University in 1959, and her degree in Medical Technology from St. Vincent Hospital in 1963.  

Previous jobs/involvements:

  • Research Associate, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Riley Hospital for Children Indianapolis, Indiana. 
  • Adjunct, Indiana University, School of Nursing  
  • Research Associate, Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry 
  • Immediate Past President of the Association for Women In Science (AWIS) 
  • Family Education Specialist and Past President of NAMI IN (National Alliance on Mental Illness) 
Select publications:
  • "Nature vs. Nurture" Critique Chapter 11 (in press), Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice, Greene, R. (ed.), Hawthorne, NY, Aldine De Gruyter Press (publication-chapter) (1998-99)
  • "Teaching Undergraduate Students About the Biology of Mental Illness Using Distance Learning Technology," Lafuze, J.E., Osborne, R.E., Larson, K., McDaniel, A.M. and Hufford, G.L., NAMI National Conference, Chicago, IL, July 1999 (publication-abstract) 
  • Osborne, R.E., Lafuze, J.E., & Perkins, D.V. (2003). Att se bortom symtomn: Fallexempel I klinisk psykologi. Studerit, Lund. Printed in Sweden.  
  • Lafuze, JE. Unveiling the Brain: Gender Matters. Keynote for the 21st Annual Indiana University Women’s and Gender Studies Conference. Richmond, IN. April 3, 2009.  
  • Schmetzer AD, Lafuze JE, Jack M. Overcoming Stigma: Involving Families in Medical Student and Psychiatry Residency Education. Academic Psychiatry. March-April 2008.
  • Chambers, RA, Sajdyk, TJ, Conroy, SK, Lafuze, JE, Fitz, SD, Shekhar, A. Neonatal Amygdala Lesions Shekhar, A. Neonatal    
  • Amygdala Lesions: Co-occurring Impact on Social/Fear-related Behavior and Cocaine Sensitization in Adult Rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 2007, Vol. 121, No. 6, 1316-1327. 

Select accomplishments and awards: 

  • Trustees Teaching Award (2004)  
  • Student Choice Award (2004) (teaching award) 
  • Indiana University Frederic Bachman Lieber Teaching Award (1998)
  • Induction into FACET (1993) (teaching award) 
  • Norman Skole Service Award (Marion County Mental Health Association) (2004) 
  • NAMI IN President’s Award (1994) (service award) 
  • Frederic Bachman Lieber Award For Distinguished Teacher in 1998

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