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Susan Lutgendorf, Ph.D.
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Lutgendorf/Lutgendorf.html
Dr. Susan Lutgendorf is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Health Psychology from the University of Miami under a 3-year predoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Immunology from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her postdoctoral training was completed at the University of Iowa Center on Aging, supported by a National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellowship from the NIH. Her work focuses on biobehavioral-immune relationships in gynecologic cancer patients and in older adults. She also studies the impact of stress-reducing techniques, such as relaxation therapy, on immune outcomes. Her current work, funded by the NCI, examines relationships between factors such as stress, depression, social support, and cellular immune function in ovarian cancer patients. She also is interested in relationships between behaviorally sensitive hormones and angiogenesis in ovarian tumors. A second project, recently funded by the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, examines effects of a complementary intervention called "Healing Touch" on cellular immune function and quality of life in advanced cervical cancer patients who are receiving radiation and chemotherapy.
Dr. Lutgendorf serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. She also serves on the Program Committee of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society and of the American Psychosomatic Society. Dr. Lutgendorf's work has been recognized nationally by an Early Career Award from the American Psychosomatic Society in 2002 and by an award from the American Psychological Association, Division 38 (Health Psychology) for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology in the year 2000.
March 2002
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