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Kevin J. Lyons, PhD
Kevin J. Lyons, PhD, has over 40 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member and administrator. He has presented numerous papers at national and international scien...view moreKevin J. Lyons, PhD, has over 40 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member and administrator. He has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings and has been a frequent consultant to universities and government agencies on issues such as research development, team building, interprofessional education, and program improvement. Dr. Lyons has written chapters for the books Medicine and Health Care Into the 21st Century, Leadership in Rural Health: Interprofessional Education and Practice, and Allied Education, Practice Issues and Trends Into the 21st Millennium, and he served as coeditor for the latter. He has served on the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Health Services Research: Training and Workforce Issues and has recently participated in their Workshop on the Allied Health Workforce and Services. Dr. Lyons has also written a white paper for the National Commission on Allied Health on Current Organizational Research Agendas Related to Allied Health Practices. For 10 years, Dr. Lyons served as editor of the Journal of Allied Health, the scholarly journal of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, has received the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award, and has been elected a fellow in that organization. He also coedited a special issue of the journal that was published in September 2010 on interprofessional education, which featured papers from national and international leaders in the field.
Dr. Lyons is a funded investigator, having received grants and contracts from the Bureau of Health Professions to advance the research mission of the allied health professions. He has also served as project evaluator and member of the steering committee for two grants from the National Institutes of Health and Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Lyons has served on peer-review panels for Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research in the U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Health Professions and for numerous professional journals. Dr. Lyons is one of the founding members of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. He has also served on the Board of Trustees for Rocky Mountain University of the Health Professions.view less