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Professional Biography of Edward P. Tyson, M.D.
For seven years Dr. Tyson was a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the OU Medical School in the Division of Adolescent Medicine with the Department of Pediatrics. As Director of the Adolescent Clinics at Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma he taught medical students, residents, and others in the health professions about adolescents and other areas of particular interest to him. In addition to adolescent medicine, Dr. Tyson was also considered the expert at the OUHSC in several other areas, including the evaluation and treatment of eating disorders and in a form of child abuse called Munchausen By Proxy.
Dr. Tyson returned in the fall of 2002 to Austin—a town he has always loved—where he had been in practice before going to OU. Dr. Tyson continues his faculty appointments with the Department of Pediatrics at the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa and at UT in Austin. In the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the UT, he lectures frequently and co-teaches a course on adolescent risk-taking behavior. Dr. Tyson especially enjoys teaching the community and other professionals about the issues his patients face and does so whenever he gets the chance.
Dr. Tyson describes himself as an advocate for adolescents and has been a member of many different professional and civic organizations that affect the healthcare and status of teens and young adults. It seems he has always had an interest in that age group: before his career in medicine, Dr. Tyson was a swim coach and high school teacher in Houston where he taught biology and physical science for over four years. In Austin, he was physician for the Travis County Juvenile Court Home for six years and served on the Board of Directors of the Travis County Mental Health Association and the Texas Comprehensive School Health Initiative. For the Texas Medical Association, he served as its representative to the Texas Education Agency, a member of its Adolescent Health Task Force, and was a primary author of the TMA’s position papers on Teen Sexuality and Substance Abuse. He was also on the Texas Education Agency’s HIV/AIDS Education Review Panel. As a member of the faculty of the Family Practice Residency Training Program at Brackenridge Hospital he helped train residents in all aspects of Family Practice, but especially in the care of young adults. Dr. Tyson is Board Certified and fellowship-trained in Adolescent Medicine Family Practice and is also Board Certified in Family Practice. He is a Fellow of both the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
In addition to the all of the above, Dr. Tyson has been interested in the treatment of non-surgical orthopedic and sports-related injuries. He has been on faculty at the OU School of Physical Therapy where he helped teach Spinal Dysfunction. He has been an instructor in a post-graduate program in Orthopedic Physical Therapy with Douglas D. Kelsey, PhD, PT, OCS. Along with Dr. Kelsey he is co-patent holder on the "Newton", a special machine which provides bodyweight support to patients with orthopedic injuries, promoting faster recovery and allowing them to train with activities such as walking, running, and jumping as part of their rehabilitation. Dr. Tyson is a co-investigator in a NIH grant with the University of Texas Medical School at Houston’s Department of Internal Medicine, using the Newton to treat patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.
Over the past 15 years, Dr. Tyson has focused more and more of his efforts on the evaluation and treatment of eating disorders. While at OU he had the only clinic in the area for outpatient medical and psychological treatment of eating disorders. He realized the large and growing need for help with this problem but also the scarcity of resources for help. To rectify this, he is committed to educate the community and other professionals as well as his patients and their families about this problem, eager to speak to whomever will listen. Dr. Tyson believes that people with eating disorders need very thorough medical care and skilled therapy for the emotional issues that are always present. Besides a great deal of medical training in eating disorders, Dr. Tyson has also had over 17 years of training in psychotherapy. While he usually incorporates the skills of other therapists for treatment of his patients, Dr. Tyson is eager and able to address those issues as well with his patients and their families. Because of his interest in and dedication to these patients, Dr. Tyson has focused his private practice primarily on the treatment of eating disorders. Through his efforts he hopes to not only provide highly competent care but also to generate widespread compassion and understanding for those struggling with this difficulty.
