Biography

Lee Vest MSN, APRN, FNP-Cis a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Aesthetic Injector who provides personalized care for women and men at Cross Roads Hormonal Health & Wellness in collaboration with Dr. Cortez. 

Lee offers various aesthetic procedures, medically supervised weight loss plans, hormonal therapies for women and men, headache management, as well as management of other acute and chronic conditions. 

Lee has over 15 years of experience in the medical field and over 4.5 years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in nursing and later Master’s Degree in Nursing from University of Texas at Arlington with honors. After completing her Master’s degree, she was one of five selected out of many to complete a post master’s emergency medicine internship at Baylor Dallas. 

Lee has always been an advocate about health and wellness both inside and out. About 1 year after graduating nurse practitioner school, Lee noted that she did not have the stamina nor ability to lose weight as she once had and personally researched her symptoms and sought out help from Dr Cortez. Lee suffered from hormone imbalance and was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Her personal experience and experience in the emergency room propelled her to seek out ways to help patients prevent acute and chronic conditions and/or to achieve optimal health and live a life of wellness. As a result, Lee sought out additional training and worked as an aesthetic injector and wellness provider in addition to working in emergency medicine. 

She is known for her personalized aesthetic and health assessment with each patient to help them meet their individual needs and goals. Her experience in aesthetic injections, hormone replacement, and wellness has helped her educate patients on the importance of health promotion and prevention. Her experience in emergency medicine has helped her develop a keen understanding and skill set to manage patients of all ages with various conditions.