R. Lee Tyson DNP, DMin, APRN-CNP, PMHNP-BC, ANP-BC, CARN-AP, FIAAN, FAANP
Dr. R. Lee Tyson, DNP, DMin, APRN-CNP, PMHNP-BC, ANP-BC, CARN-AP, FAAN, FIAAN is founder, owner, and president of Lee Side Wellness and associate professor and director of PMHNP programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. He created an innovative, replicable, sustainable business model for NP-led practices that increases access to mental health and opioid use disorder treatment by expanding and empowering the psychiatric provider workforce throughout the country. He leveraged his academic influence to pioneer national approval of telehealth as a standardized modality for procuring clinical hours years before COVID-19, affirming his stratagems as critically influential. Dr. Tyson is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and International Academy of Addictions Nursing.