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Karen S. Lyons, PhD, FGSA (she/her/hers)

Professor
Boston College
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Karen Lyons, Ph.D., FGSA, is a Professor and gerontologist at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. She has a bachelors and masters in psychology and a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies. Her program of research has focused on how the family care dyad experiences and navigates illness. Her innovative conceptual and methodological contributions to dyadic science and over two decades of family care research culminated in the Theory of Dyadic Illness Management (2018). The theory is currently being used across disciplines to study dyads in cancer, heart failure, and dementia. Her body of work has been well-cited across disciplines and included in almost 100 review articles and textbooks and has led to numerous, interdisciplinary and international collaborations and Fellowship in the Gerontological Society of America (2014). Her current work is focused on designing and evaluating dyadic interventions to balance the needs of both members of the care dyad or couple across the adult lifespan, including a recent trial (Taking Care of Us; R21 AG068715) to examine the efficacy and feasibility of a dyadic intervention for couples living with heart failure.

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