Trissa Lyman, MPH is a first-year NIH T-32 predoctoral fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Lyman’s research interests center on exploring how technological solutions can address nursing burnout while improving health outcomes and influencing health policy. Lyman garnered extensive experience as a registered nurse, working in medical and emergency departments for two years before dedicating 18 months as a volunteer mission nurse specialist in Ecuador for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 2013 to 2015. During her mission, she provided medical care to missionaries, assessed health care quality of hospitals, and developed emergency preparedness plans. These plans were instrumental in aiding victims of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Ecuador’s coast in April 2016.
For the past three years, Lyman has practiced as a nurse practitioner, specializing in addiction recovery for eating and substance use disorders. She worked as a teaching fellow for the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program, a certificate program aimed at training nurse leaders at the national level in global public health.
Lyman earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington. Subsequently, she worked in a medical intensive care unit while attending Brigham Young University, where she completed the Family Nurse Practitioner Program in 2021. She further enhanced her expertise by obtaining a Master of Public Health from Harvard University in 2023. Her thesis focused on understanding nurses’ perceptions of obstacles and helpful behaviors in end-of-life care within critical access hospitals.
