Awards
- Titled Professor (Emeritus) - 2001
- Barbara F. Kampen Professor of Women's Health
Dr. Fife received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1971 and her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1975. She served as a medical resident at Johns Hopkins and as a Senior Fellow in Rheumatology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Dr. Fife joined the faculty at the IU School of Medicine in 1981. She is Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and is Associate Dean for Research in the School of Medicine. She is Director of the HHS-designated IU National Center of Excellence in Women's Health. She also directs the IU Outpatient Clinical Research Facility. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, Medical Crossfire, and the Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Related Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American College of Rheumatology and is a member of numerous professional societies. She has served on the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Nursing Research and on the General Clinical Research Centers Study Section of the National Center for Research Resources. Her research centers on angiogenesis and metastasis of tumors.