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Sydnee Lucas

DNP, RN, FNP-BC

Track Co-Coordinator, Family Nurse Practitioner

Assistant Professor

Department of Graduate Studies

Sydnee Lucas, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, is a Family Nurse Practitioner, Co-Coordinator for the Family Nurse Practitioner Track, and Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies – Clinical Track at the Cizik School of Nursing. Her teaching duties involve leading co-teaching across multiple courses in the graduate program.

She has a background working with pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients in under-resourced communities around Houston. She has presented on Adolescent Consent and Confidentiality, Social Determinant of Health Screenings, Management of Pediatric Behavioral Health Disorders in an Integrated Pediatric Medical Home, and Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing for Pediatric URI. Sydnee joined the faculty of UTHealth in January 2021.

Sydnee is Secretary for the Texas Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (TXSAHM). She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Zeta Pi chapter, AANP, TNP, NAPNAP, Doctors for Change and NONPF.

Education

Cizik School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas
Doctor of Nursing Practice
2015

Cizik School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas
Master of Science in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner
2013

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science in Nursing – Registered Nurse
2011

Clinical/Research Focus

Adolescent consent and confidentiality and social determinants of health in the clinic setting.

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