Episode Four: Eydie Cloyd, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, answers common questions about psychotropic medications.

This week, our guest is Eydie Cloyd, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt University. She provides psychiatric evaluations and medication management services to adolescent and adult patients, assessing and diagnosing various mental health problems. Eydie joined the Osher team in 2013 and is part of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Initiative and an instructor in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. She is also the primary investigator for a pilot study entitled "Mindfulness Centered Stress Reduction for Nursing Students." In addition to her work at the Osher Center, Eydie has been on the Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty for over a decade and teaches in the specialty level Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program. 
Eydie holds a Masters of Science and Nursing from Vanderbilt University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Tennessee. College of Law. Prior to her work as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Eydie served as an attorney for seventeen years. In this role, she provided a range of advocacy and legal services to underserved populations, including those suffering from mental illness.