Provider Bio

Lee Vivanco, DNP, is a board certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner on the inpatient consult-liaison psychiatry team. She collaborates closely with patients, families, and interdisciplinary medical teams to address behavioral health needs that arise during hospitalization. Her clinical interests include the complex mind-body interplay, psychiatric conditions that emerge later in life such as dementias, and the treatment of substance use disorders.

Lee Vivanco earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Seattle University and spent several years working as an ICU psychiatric nurse helping patients with co-occurring mental and physical health concerns before completing her Doctor of Nursing Practice at the University of Washington.

Outside of her clinical work, she enjoys camping, hiking, and studying and gardening with Pacific Northwest native plants.