He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents. He is currently writing for breast cancer survivors and their oncologists about the important role that estrogens and antiestrogens have in the brain, on cognitive function, and on mental health. He is a past-president of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (2011-2013). He served as Associate Editor and then Editor-in-Chief, of Endocrinology (2008-2012), and Associate Editor of Hormones and Behavior (2017-2018), and he is currently a reviewing editor of eNeuro and Associate Editor of the Journal of the Endocrine Society. He recently served on the Finance and Audit Committee of the Endocrine Society. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he received the Chancellor’s Medal (2012), Samuel S. Conti Faculty Fellowship (2013) and Convocation Research and Creativity Award (2016), and he received the Distinguished Alumni Award (2011) from the University Alumni Association. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014. He lives with his wife, Marilyn, and their cat, Abbie, in Amherst and Wellfeet, Massachusetts.
Email: jblaustein@umass.edu
