Lydia MacDonald, R.N., B.S.N., B.A.

Lydia is a licensed registered nurse and the co-coordinator of the Behavioral Sleep Education study for children with autism and insomnia. Her responsibilities include recruitment of participants, data management and analysis, and submitting regulatory documents to the IRB. She has also been trained as a sleep educator and provides sleep education to the parents of study participants. She is currently obtaining a Masters degree in nursing and will graduate as a Psychiatric Mental-Health Nurse Practitioner this coming May. Outside of the office she enjoys riding horses, decorating, exercising, reading and not cooking. She lives in Brentwood, Tennessee with her husband and three children ages nineteen, eleven, and seven.