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Dr. Kevin J. Lyons, until recently, was Assistant Vice President for Program Evaluation and Student/Faculty Surveys and Director of the Office of Institutional Research at Thomas Jefferson University. He now serves as a research consultant to that Office and to the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education.

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 interprofessional education, research development and program improvement.  He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and has made over 190 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 fourth 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 is recently participated in their Workshop on the Allied Health Workforce and Services to discuss the future of interprofessional education.   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 ten years Dr. Lyons 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 interprofessional teams of 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, NCCAM 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.