As a nursing professor, Dr. Tryon teaches graduate nursing courses in health promotion, nutrition, exercise, and health coaching. She encourages students to go beyond prescribing and coach patients to create personalized lifestyle strategies for preventing, managing, and reversing chronic disease. Dr. Tryon also practices part-time as a Nurse Practitioner at Volunteers in Medicine in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she researches lifestyle medicine and coaching approaches for addressing diabetes in underserved populations. She has a Doctorate in Nursing Practice with an emphasis in lifestyle medicine, and holds national certifications in lifestyle medicine, health coaching, plant-based nutrition, and exercise physiology. She balances work and ministry by curling up with a good book and a cup of tea, creating healthy recipes, and spending time with family.