ASAHP Fellows
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Kevin J. Lyons, Ph.D., FASAHP Assistant Vice President |
Dr. Kevin J. Lyons is Assistant Vice President, Program Evaluation and Student/Faculty Surveys and Director of the Office of Institutional Research at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Lyons 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 and program improvement. He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and has made over 170 scholarly presentations to local, national and international audiences. He has also co-authored the book, Successful: Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Services Professionals, the third edition of which was recently published by Springer Publishing. 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 served as co-editor 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 written a white paper for the National Commission on Allied Health on Current Organizational Research Agendas Related to Allied Health Practices. He also served as Editor of the Journal of Allied Health, the scholarly journal of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, and has received the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award and been elected a Fellow in that organization. He has co-edited 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 nine grants contracts from the Bureau of Health Professions to advance the research mission of the allied health professions, conduct graduate programs to prepare health professionals to work in the homeless community and assess the validity of accreditations standard in eight allied health professions. He also has served as project evaluator and member of the steering committee for two grants from HRSA that were awarded to Palmer College and is currently serving in the same capacity for two others from NIH and HRSA. Dr. Lyons has served on peer review panels for FIPSE, OSERS, NCAM and NIDRR in the U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of Health Professions and for numerous professional journals. Dr Lyons is one of the founding members of the International Association for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. He also sits on the Board of Trustees for Rocky Mountain University of the Health Professions.