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About Dr. Tyson
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Who am I?
I started off my professional career as a teacher in high school (biology, physical science, and swim team coach) and I have never wandered far from being a teacher. It was during those early years that I first learned I especially liked to work with teens and young adults. After about four years, I left teaching to pursue medicine, but I never lost my love of teaching. In fact, when I went back to school to get into medical school, for income I worked as a substitute teacher and a tutor.
Once in medical school, I learned of a relatively new field of medicine, called Adolescent Medicine. I visited the office of some physicians who specialized in that—Drs. Drew Alexander and John Edlin—and, suddenly, I knew that was what I had to do. |
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After medical school and a family practice residency, I did a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. I returned to Austin and started a private practice in adolescent and young adult medicine. I also went back to high school, teaching anatomy and physiology at a local school for one class a day. And I was on faculty with the Family Practice program in Austin, teaching medical students and residents about health care for teens and young adults.
That wasn’t enough teaching for me. I also started co-teaching a course at the University of Texas at Austin on adolescents. I have continued that in at least some capacity ever since. With Dr. Fred Peterson, Ph.D., I have co-taught both lower and upper level courses and graduate classes about adolescent health and risk-taking behavior.
I then went back to OKC to be on faculty in the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center’s Department of Pediatrics as Director of Adolescent Clinics. I did that for seven years and then got back to Austin as soon as I could. I still teach and advocate for better health care for adolescents at UT and anywhere else whenever I get the chance.
It was during my years at OU that I really started to focus my practice on two areas in particular—eating disorders and orthopedic injuries and rehabilitation. These fields may seem unconnected, but they are not. So many athletes and athletic people have eating disorders and so many of those have orthopedic injuries. An interest in one fueled the other. At OU, I also helped teach in the School of Physical Therapy and I was a co-instructor for a postgraduate training program for physical therapists.
Therefore, at this website there will be doses of information about both areas. I have found that my patients have longed for more in-depth explanations of what they are dealing with and that they often are dissatisfied with either explanations, interventions, or results. I plan on changing that to some degree at least. It is my destiny to teach and that is what I will do with this website (as well as with all patient visits). Please, read, study, research, and question.
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