Lindsey VanDyke

Dr. Lindsey VanDyke is a native of the Pacific Northwest. She was diagnosed with Stage IV Wilms' Tumor at age eleven then relapsed at thirteen. At age twenty-one, she had developed a new thyroid cancer that was caused by the treatments she’d received as a child. She went on to study broadcast journalism and psychology at Gonzaga University and worked in television news before going back to school to study pre-med. She earned her doctorate at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, and her medical training has taken her to the four corners of the United States, including Internal Medicine residency in Long Beach, CA and Endocrinology fellowship in Albuquerque, NM. At the age of thirty-eight she developed a breast cancer diagnosis, also due to treatments received as a child. She practices Endocrinology in Mansfield, TX. Bow Ties, Butterflies and Band-Aids is her first book.