Joan Esterline Lafuze, Ph.D., is a Systems Medical Physiologist and has been a Professor of Biology at Indiana University East since 1987. She was appointed Assistant Professor part-time and Research Associate at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1981. Dr. Lafuze received her Ph.D. in Physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine in 1981 and taught there until she accepted her current teaching appointment at Indiana University East. Dr. Lafuze conducted fulltime research in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology from 1981 until 1987 and has continued to collaborate at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She and her family have been active in The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Indiana since its inception. Dr. Lafuze has become fascinated with the tremendous strides made in basic science research related to those disorders that have traditionally been considered “behaviorally and socially” based. Her involvement in teaching and translational neuroscience research provides a “springboard” for a multidisciplinary approach to understanding these illnesses and the complexities of treatment strategies.
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