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 and co-teaching across multiple courses in the graduate program.

She has a background working with pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients in the primary care setting. Sydnee joined the faculty of UTHealth in January 2021.

Dr. Lucas currently serves as nursing faculty for the Baylor-TMC Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) grant through the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). She is actively involved in the Executive Committee for the Texas Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), an Education Strategy Team member and Education Committee member for SAHM, and Chair of the SAHM Nursing Special Interest Group. Dr. Lucas also co-chairs the Multi-site PRIME-NP Consortium, a collaborative group looking at the use of the PRIME-NP model to standardize NP competency evaluation in education.