Lynnea Myers ’05

Lynnea Myers graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Nursing from Gustavus Adolphus College and her Master of Science in Nursing from Duke University. She received a PhD in Nursing Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and a PhD in Developmental Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a licensed registered nurse and holds certification as a public health nurse. Lynnea is a past president of the Minnesota Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. 

Lynnea's Doctoral Dissertation at Vanderbilt University was titled Communicating with Health Care Providers: Perceptions of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-11022017-101115/

Lynnea's Doctoral Dissertation at the Karolinska Institute was titled Morphological Variants in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: https://openarchive.ki.se/xmlui/handle/10616/46867

Publications:

Myers, L. (2013).  Partnering to provide a summer institute of nursing. Journal of Nursing Education, 52(12), 701-704. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20131121-02. PMID: 24304260

Myers, L. (2014). Best practices in developmental screening and referral for young children. Nurse Practitioner, 39(12), 1-6. doi: 10.1097/01.NPR.0000456396.62414.14. PMID: 25397740

Myers, L (2014).  Exploring public health nursing at the community and systems level. Journal of Nursing Education, 53(9 Suppl), S118. doi:10.3928/01484834-20140821-21. PMID: 25199155

Hanson, K. E., Mansergh, G., Koblin, B. A., Flores, S. A., Hudson, S. M., Myers, L., & Colfax, G. N. (2015). Depressive symptoms by HIV serostatus are differentially associated with unprotected receptive and insertive anal sex among substance-using men who have sex with men in the United States. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 68(1), e13-e16. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000396. PMID: 25321181

Myers, L., Stadick, J. L., & Helget, J. L. (2015). Ped- Giving back: Using alumni for a nursing skills day. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(4), 235-236. doi:10.3928/01484834-20150318-11. PMID: 25826766

Myers, L.H., Jeffery, A. D., Nimmagadda, H., Werthman, J., & Jordan, K. (2015). Ped- Building a community of scholars: One cohort’s experience in an online and distance education doctorate of philosophy program. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(11), 650-654. PMID: 26517078

Hasslinger, J. Sirviö, S., Berggren, S., Myers, L., Flygare, O., Tammimies, K., Bölte, S. (2016). A comparative randomized controlled pragmatic trial of neurofeedback and working memory training for children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Protocol. Translational Developmental Psychology, 4: doi:10.3402/tdp.v4.30556

Myers, L., Anderlid, B. M., Nordgren, A., Willfors, C., Kuja-Halkola, R., Tammimies, K., & Bolte, S. (2017). Minor physical anomalies in neurodevelopmental disorders: A twin study. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 11, 57. doi:10.1186/s13034-017-0195-y

Myers, L.,Van't Westeinde, A., Kuja-Halkola, R., Tammimies, K., & Bolte, S. (2018). 2D:4D Ratio in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Twin Study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. doi:10.1007/s10803-018-3588-8

Myers, L., Blyth, M., Moradkhani, K., Hranilović, D., Polesie, S., Isaksson, J., Nordgren, A., Bucan, M., Vincent, M., Bölte, S., Anderlid, B., & Tammimies, K. (2020). Variable neurodevelopmental and morphological phenotypes of carriers with 12q12 duplications. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/mgg3.1013

Myers, L., Anderlid, B.M., Nordgren, A., Lundin, K., Kuja-Halkola, R., Tammimies, K., & Bölte, S. (2020). Clinical versus automated assessments of morphological variants in twins with and without neurodevelopmental disorders.(In Press, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A).

Courses Taught