Debra E. Lyon, Ph.D., RN, FNP-BC
Associate Professor
Contact Information VCU School of Nursing |
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Overview
Dr. Lyon comes from the Univeristy of Virginia where she taught in the areas of Psychiatric nursing and has background teaching in areas of nursing thoery and research and family, child and women's health.
Education
| 2003 | Post-Doctoral Fellow | Post-Doctoral Fellow - National Center for Complementary and Alternative medicine, National Institutes of Health |
| 1997 | Ph.D. | Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 1996 | Post-Masters | Family Nurse Practitioner, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 1993 | MS | Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 1984 | BSN | Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University |
Memberships in Professional Organizations
American Nurses' Association/Virginia Nurses Association
Phi Kappa Phi, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Omega Chapter (1992 - present) Counselor 1997 - 1998
Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Kappa Chapter (1998 - present)
Membership Committee 2000 - present
Mentor, Alex Bingswanger. Sharon Clarke
Society for Education, Practice, Research in Psychiatric Nursing (SERPN) (1999 - 2001)
Southern Nursing Research Society (1996 - present)
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty (1998 - 2001)
American Psychiatric Nursing Association (1998- 2001)
Board Member at Large, Virginia (1999 - 2000)
Oncology Nursing Society (2003 - present)
Research Mentor
American Cancer Society
Relay for Life, Team Member
Making Strides, Team Leader
Research Funding/External Funding
Cranial Stimulation for Chemotherapy Symptoms in Breast Cancer
July 2003 - June 2005 National Cancer Institute, NIH ($456,000)
Pilot study of cranial mocrocurrent therapy for breast cancer symptoms.
2003 American Cancer Society ($15,000)
Cranial Stimulation Pilot Study
2002 Ward K. Elsminger ($5,000)
Nightengale Summer Research Award:
2001 University of Virginia School of Nursing ($5,000)
Correlates of HIV-related Lipodystrophy.
2000 American Nurses' Foundation ($5,000)
HIV in Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Secondary Data Analysis
1999 Oscar and Ruth Lanford Research Award ($13,424)
Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy, Phyllis J. Verhonick Award
1999 Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Kappa Chapter ($1,000)
World AIDS Day Project, Educating University Students about HIV/AIDS
1998 The American Red Cross ($100)
Research Activities
Dr. Lyon's current research areas include symptom management in women with breast cancer and complementary and alternative therapies for symptom management.
Awards, Fellowships & Honors
University Seminar Course, "Mind, Body, Spirit" 2003
Innovative Teaching Award, "A web-based psychopharmacology tool" 2003
Faculty Marshall, University of Virginia School of Nursing, 2003
Seven Society Junior Faculty Award, 2002
Selected Participant, Annual Research Training Program: Developing Nurse Scientists, National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), Bethesda, Maryland, July, 2002
University of Virginia Teaching Fellow, 2001-2002
Southern Nursing Society Scholar, American Nurses' Foundation, 2000
Faculty Marshall, University of Virginia School of Nursing, 2000
Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Maternal Child Institute, 1997
Selected Publications
McCain, N.L., Lyon, D.E., Higginson, R., Settle, J., Robins, J.L.W., & Fisher, E.J. (1998). Revision of the HIV Center Medical Staging Scale. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 9(5), 19-23.
Lyon, D.E. & Truban, E. (2000). HIV-Related Lipodystrophy: Implications for Practice and Research Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Mar-Apr 2000, 11(2) 36-42.
Lyon, D.E. & Morgan-Judge, T. (2000). Childhood Depressive Disorders: An Epidemic with Implications for School Nursing. Journal of School Nursing, 16, 2, 26-31.
Lyon, D.E. (2001). HIV Epidemic Among the Persons with Severe Mental Illness. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 8, 23-20.
Lyon, D.E & Munro, C.L. (2001). Disease Severity and Symptoms of Depression in Black Americans Infected with HIV. Applied Nursing Research, 14, 1,3-9.
Lyon, D. E., & Younger, J.B. (2001). Purpose in life and Depressive Symptoms in Persons Living with HIV Disease. Journal of Nursing Scholarship (formerly Image), 33(2), 137-141.
Lyon, D. E. & Midkiff, L. K. (2001). Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. 7, 35-38.
Lyon, D. E. & Peach, J. (2001). Primary Care Providers’ Views of Precepting Nurse Practitioner Students. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 13(5):237-40.
Lyon, D.E., Chase, L., & Farrell, S. (2002). An interview guide for suicidality in primary care. Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care, 27(7), 26-31.
Lyon, D.E., Salyer, J., Settle, J. (2002). Lifestyle Correlates of HIV-related Lipodystrophy. Antiviral Therapy, 7 (3), L50.
Lyon, D.E., & Parker, B. A. (2003). Gender related health concerns of Rural Women with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 17(1), 27-32.
Joachim, B. Lyon, D.E., & Farrell, S.P. (2003). Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence applied to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 39(4), 163-168.
Rodeheaver, P., Taylor, A.G., & Lyon, D.E. (2003). Incorporating Patients’ Perspectives into CAM Clinical Trial Design. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Therapy, 9 (6), 959-968.