Dr. Joyce Splann Krothe is an Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Nursing and has served as the Director of the Bloomington Campus since 1992. She also serves as the Project Director for the Brown County Health Support Clinic, a nurse managed clinic in rural Indiana. Her area of teaching expertise is community health nursing. She received her BSN degree from Columbia University and her MSN and DNS degrees from Indiana University.

She is active in a number of professional organizations; and has made presentations and published related to utilization of a community development model to address issues related to access to health care for uninsured and under insured populations. Dr. Krothe spent a sabbatical leave at Massey University, New Zealand in 2000 and served as a consultant to faculty colleagues at the university to establish the first nurse managed clinic in the country. Collaborative research with Massey University related to outcomes of nurse managed services is ongoing through funding from an International Exchange Affiliation grant.

In 2002, Dr. Krothe received the Thomas Ehrlich Award for Service-Learning from Indiana University for excellence in the development and practice of community service-learning and its integration into the university curriculum.