Dr. Dyer is a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement from the Association for Death Education and Counseling, a Fellow of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, a Fellow of the American College of Wellness, a founding member of the Medical Wellness Association, a long-time member of the American Medical Association and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is a Certified Wellness Specialist, Board Certified in both Bereavement Trauma and Traumatic Stress and a Nationally Certified Bereavement Facilitator. Dr. Dyer is currently on the Advisory boards for the Medical Wellness Association and the American College of Wellness. She is an Associate Editor for Medicine for The Journal of Educators Online and one of the editors for the Medical Wellness Journal. She served on the International Advisory Board for the Physician Wellness Foundation and a three year term for the California Medical Association's Committee on the Well Being of Physicians. Dr. Dyer has lectured for Kaiser Permanente, March of Dimes, U.C. Berkeley Extension, American Institute of Medical Education, the California Hospice Foundation, American Medical Student Association, the California Maritime Academy, Columbia College and the Tuolumne County Medical Society. She has developed online courses for NICU Solutions, the University of Pittsburgh's Supercourse and Madonna University's Bereavement Certificate Program. She has presented scientific papers about her experiences with Journey of Hearts(tm) and the Medical Internet at several U.S. conferences and international conferences in London, England, Heidelberg, Germany and Victoria, Canada.

Interests in life challenges, web-education, self-help and encouraging the healing process following a loss culminated in creating the Journey of Hearts, www.journeyofhearts.org website to educate people about the normal grief response. Since 1997 thousands of people worldwide have been helped with the resources available at this online healing place for anyone who has ever experienced a loss.

An avid writer Dr. Dyer has published numerous articles on life changes in journals, books, on the Internet and on Journey of Hearts.(tm) Dr. Dyer used journaling and poetry as way of expressing intense emotions experienced as part of the rigors of medical school and training. Many of her healing poems have been used as part of funeral, memorial and remembrance services, published as memorials in newspapers and yearbooks and sent as e-mail condolences. Her articles and poems about loss, grief and other life challenges have been widely used by others. They have been cited in personal and thesis papers, used in memorial speeches, reprinted in newsletters, reproduced as employee health pamphlets, appeared on websites, used at hospice, medical student, physician and dispute resolution (legal) conferences, and in loss and grief, death and dying, NICU and medical informatics courses.

Since having her second daughter in March 2002, she has been on hiatus from practicing clinical medicine to be the primary caregiver for her two young daughters. She joined the faculty of Columbia College in 2004 as an Adjunct Faculty in the Biological Sciences Department where she teaches Nutrition and Wellness. In June 2006 she joined About.com, a part of The New York Times Company, and served as the Death, Dying and Bereavement Guide at dying.about.com until January 2007. Much of her About.com Death, Dying and Bereavement site is still online at the About.com site. In November 2006 Dr. Dyer joined the College of Nursing and Health at Madonna University as an Associate Adjunct Professor teaching online Bereavement Courses in Grieving Family Systems as part of the Hospice Graduate Education program's Certificate in Bereavement. Dr. Dyer writes for a variety of different online websites including Squidoo.com, Suite 101, TypeA Mom and Foodie Mamma.

Her e-commerce ventures, the Violet Heart(tm) debuted in September 2004 to promote well being. The online e-Boutique VioletHeart.org specializes in memorable comfort and de-stressing gifts to create moments to "Calm the Mind, Soothe the Spirit and Heal the Heart."