Tracee Ridley-Pryor is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing and Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine at UTHSC. She is also a graduate of UTHSC where she earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice. She serves as Director of Research Strategies and Collaboration in the Neuroscience Institute at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. She is actively engaged in teaching and research at the hospital and UTHSC. Her clinical and research interests include epilepsy, functional neurological disorders, functional seizures also called non-epileptic events, trauma and stress disorders, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and Tourette syndrome.