Name:
Susan Lutgendorf

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Address:
E 228 Seashore 
Department of Psychology
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1407 
Phone:
(319) 335 - 2432 
E-mail:
susan-lutgendorf@uiowa.edu
Courses Taught:
31: 013 Introduction to Clinical Psychology 
31: 266 Psychological Therapies 
31: 370 Health Psychology Seminar: Introduction to Psychoneuroimmunology 
Interests:
  • Psychoneuroimmunology
  • Biobehavioral mechanisms in Cancer, Aging and Inflammatory Diseases
  • Effects of Behavioral Medicine Interventions on Immunity: Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management, Medical Hypnosis, Relaxation, Disclosure
  • Adjustment to Chronic Illness: Cancer, HIV, Inflammatory Diseases
  • Alternative Medicine
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Research:
 Lutgendorf  Laboratory
Funding:
Current and Recent Funding
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  Selected Recent Publications
1. Lutgendorf, S.K., Lamkin, D.M., Jennings, N.B., Arevalo, J.M.G., Penedo, F., DeGeest, K., Langley, R.R., Lucci, J.A. III, Cole, S.W., Lubaroff, D.M., Sood, A.K. (in press). Biobehavioral Influences on Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression in Ovarian Carcinoma, Clinical Cancer Research.
2. Lutgendorf, S.K., DeGeest, K., Sung, C.Y., Arevalo, J.M.G., Penedo, F., Lucci, J.A. III, Goodheart, M., Lubaroff, D., Farley, D.M., Sood, A.K., Cole, S.W. (in press). Depression, Social Support, and Beta-Adrenergic Transcription Control in Human Ovarian Cancer Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. (Pub Med Central #18550328)
3. Lutgendorf, S.K., Weinrib, A.Z., Penedo, F., Russell, D., DeGeest, K., Costanzo, E.S., Henderson, P.J., Sephton, S.E., Rohleder, N., Lucci, J.A. III, Cole, S., Sood, A.K., Lubaroff, D. (in press). Interleukin-6, Cortisol, and Depressive Symptoms in Ovarian Cancer Patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology.
4. Lutgendorf, S.K., Lamkin, D., Anderson, B., DeGeest, K., McGinn, S., Maiseri, H., Dao, M., Zimmerman, B., Sood, A.K., Lubaroff, D.M. (in press). Depressed and anxious mood and T-cell cytokine producing populations in ovarian cancer patients. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
5. Lang, E.V., Berbaum, K.S., Pauker, S.G., Faintuch, S., Salazar, G.M., Lutgendorf, S., Laser, E., Logan, H., Spiegel, D. (2008). Beneficial effects of hypnosis and adverse effects of empathic attention during percutaneous tumor treatment: when being nice does not suffice, Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology, 19,897–905
6. Merritt, W.M., Lin, Y.G., Spannuth, W.A., Fletcher, M.A., Kamat, A.A., Han, L.Y., Landen, C.N., Jennings, N., DeGeest, K., Langley, R., Villares, G., Sanguino, A., Lutgendorf, S.K., Lopez-Berestein, G., Bar-Eli, M.M., Sood, A.K. (in press). Effect of IL-8 Gene Silencing with Liposome-Encapsulated Small-Interfering RNA on Ovarian Cancer Cell Growth . Journal of the National Cancer Institute
7. Ullrich, P.M., Rothrock, N., Lutgendorf, S.K., Jochimsen, P., & Williams, R.D. (in press). Adjustment and Discussion of Cancer: A Comparison of Breast and Prostate Cancer Survivors. Psychology and Health.
8. Lamkin, D.M., Lutgendorf, S.K., McGinn, S., Dao, M, Maiseri, H., DeGeest, K., Sood, A.K., Lubaroff, D.M. (2008). Positive psychosocial factors and NKT cell percentages in ovarian cancer patients. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 22,65-73.
9. Costanzo, E.S., Trehan, S., Roman, S., Mattes, M., Lutgendorf, S. (2007). Adjusting to Life After Treatment: Distress and Quality of Life Following Treatment for Breast Cancer, British Journal of Cancer 97, 1625-31
10. Landen, C.N., Lin, Y.G., Armaiz Pena,G.N., Das, P.D., Arevalo, J.M.G., Kamat, A.A., Han, L.Y., Jennings, N.B., Spannuth, W., Thaker, P.K., Lutgendorf, S.K., Savary, C.S., Sanguino, A.M., Lopez-Berestein, G., Cole, S.W., Sood, A.K. (2007). Neuroendocrine modulation of signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 in ovarian cancer. Cancer Research. 67, 10389-96
11. Ullrich, P., Lutgendorf, S., Kreder, K. (2007). Physiologic Reactivity to a laboratory stress task Among Men With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. Urology. 70, 487-492
12. Nilsson, M.B., Armaiz-Pena, G., Takahashi, R., Lin, Y.G., Trevino, J., Li, Y., Jennings, N., Arevalo, J., Lutgendorf, S.K., Gallick, G.E., Sanguino, A.M., Lopez-Berenstein, G., Cole, S.W. , & Sood, A.K. (2007). Stress hormones regulate IL-6 expression by human ovarian carcinoma cells through a src-dependent mechanism. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282, 29919-26.
13. Lutgendorf, S., Lang, E., Berbaum K., Russell, D., Berbaum, M., Logan, H., Benotsch, E., Schulz-Stubner, S., Turesky, D., Spiegel, D. (2007). Effects of Age on Responsiveness to Adjunct Hypnotic Analgesia during Invasive Medical Procedures, Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 191-9.Lutgendorf, S., Cole, S., Costanzo, E., Bradley, S., Coffin, J., Jabbari, S., Rainwater, K., Ritchie, J.M., Yang, M., Sood, A.K. (2003). Stress-Related Mediators Stimulate Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Secretion by Two Ovarian Cancer Cell Lines. Clinical Cancer Research, 9, 4514-4521.
14. Weinrib, A., Lutgendorf, S.K., Rothrock, N., Martin, R., Johnsen, E., Anderson, B. (2006). Negative Mood, Cognitive Processing, and the Construct Validity of Stress-Related Growth. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 851-858.
15. Thaker, P.H., Han, L.Y., Kamat, A.A., Arevalo, J.M., Takahashi, R., Lu C., Jennings, N.B., Armaiz-Pena, G., Bankson, J.A., Ravoori, M., Merritt, W.M., Lin, YG, Mangala, L.S., Kim, T.J., Coleman, R.L., Landen, C.N., Li Y., Felix, E., Sanguino, A.M., Newman, R.A., Lloyd, M., Gershenson, D.M., Kundra, V., Lopez-Berestein, G., Lutgendorf, S.K., Cole, S.W., Sood, A.K. (2006). Chronic stress promotes tumor growth and angiogenesis in a mouse model of ovarian carcinoma. Nature Medicine, 12, 939-44
16. Costanzo, E.S., Lutgendorf, S.K., Bradley, S.L, Rose, S.L. Anderson, B. (2006). Cancer Attributions, Distress, and Health Practices among Gynecologic Cancer Survivors. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 972-80.
17. Sood A.K., Bhatty R., Kamat A.A., Landen C.N., Han L., Thaker P.H., Li Y., Gershenson D.M., Lutgendorf, S., Cole S.W. (2006). Stress hormone mediated invasion of ovarian cancer cells. Clinical Cancer Research 12, 369-75.
Chapters
1. Armaiz Pena,G.N , Lutgendorf, S.K., Cole, S.W. Sood, A.K. (in press). Neuroendocrine modulation of cancer progression, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
2. Thaker, PH, Lutgendorf, S.K., & Sood A.K., (2007). The Neuroendocrine Impact of Chronic Stress on Cancer. Cell Cycle, 6, 430-3.
3. Antoni, M., Lutgendorf, S., Cole, S., Dhabar, F., Sephton, S., Green McDonald P., Stefanek, M., Sood, A., (2006). The Influence of Biobehavioural Factors on Tumor Biology: Pathways and Mechanisms, Nature Reviews Cancer 6, 240-248.
4. Lutgendorf, S. and Mullen, E. (in press) Energy Medicine in Oncology Settings. (in D. Abrams and A. Weil) Textbook in Integrative Medicine. Oxford University Press.
5. Lutgendorf, S., Seigal, S., Costanzo, E. (2007) Psychosocial Influences in Oncology: An Expanded Model of Biobehavioral Mechanisms. In R. Ader, N. Cohen, D., Felten, (eds). Psychoneuroimmunology IV. (pp.869-896). San Diego: Elsevier.



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