Lilly TryonLilly Tryon, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM, NBCHWC, ACSM-EP, is a professor at the Southern Adventist University School of Nursing. She has a master's degree in nursing (Drexel University), a doctorate in nursing practice with an emphasis inlifestyle meicine (Southern Adventist University), and holds certifications in lifestyle medicine, health and wellness coaching, plant-based nutrition, and exercise physiology.As a professor, Dr. Tryon focuses onexpanding the use of lifestyle medicine inadvanced practice nursing. She teaches courses in advanced health promotion, lifestyle medicine, nutrition, culinary medicine, exercise, and health coaching andoften uses the analogy of a tour guide (as opposed to a travel agent) toencouragestudents to go beyond prescribing and coach their patients to take realistic, evidence-based, andsustainable steps for preventing, managing, and reversingchronic disease. Dr. Tryon is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 35 years of nursing experience in lifestyle medicine and community health. She practices part-time at LifeMed, a direct primary care and lifestyle medicine practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she focuses on using lifestyle as medicine in addressing the healthcare needs of her patients. She is also a strong advocate of faith-based health ministry and has developed training workshops and materials for using a coaching approach in church health outreach programs. Read More Read Less