[1] The sixth Director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University, she began on June 1, 2004.
[2][3] Heiman received a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) in 1970 from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, then a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1975 from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
She performed a predoctoral internship from 1972 to 1974 at the Stony Brook Psychological Center and Patchogue-Medford School District.
She received postgraduate training as a National Institute of Mental Health funded postdoctoral research associate in 1975 from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
[citation needed] Heiman has served as a mentor and teacher to a multitude of researchers in her respective field.