Lucy Lan, MD MBA

Dr. Lucy Lan is a board-certified psychiatrist. She was born in China, grew up in the Southeastern US, made her way to the Northeast, the West Coast, and now the Southwest. She received her BA and MD from Wake Forest University in beautiful North Carolina. Towards the end of medical school, she received an MBA from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency at Boston University/ Boston Medical Center. During residency, she pursued a psychoanalytic psychotherapy fellowship at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to complement her therapy training from residency. After residency, she completed the 2022-2023 Interventional Psychiatry Fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Chief of Interventional Psychiatry at the Southern Nevada VA, working on starting up esketamine, ketamine, and ECT services for veterans. Dr. Lan teaches psychiatry residents as an assistant professor at University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Outside of clinical practice, she has experience in venture banking, social entrepreneurship, and consulting for healthcare systems. Her research interests include neuromodulation (transcranial magnetic stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy), psychedelics, and the application of augmented/virtual reality for mental health treatment. Outside of medicine, she enjoys gardening, farmer's markets, exploring new places, and culinary adventures.

Dr. Lan cares for patients residing in CA and MA aged 18-64 at Joie Mental Health.

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    • Undergraduate: BA in Chemistry with minors in French and Entrepreneurship from Wake Forest University

    • Medical School: MD from Wake Forest University

    • Graduate School: MBA from University of Cambridge

    • Medical Residency: Adult Psychiatry from Boston University/Boston Medical Center

    • Medical Fellowship: Interventional Psychiatry at Stanford University

    • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Fellowship from Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

    • Board-certified in Adult Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

    • MDMA-assisted therapy training by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and the Bronx VA

    • Pulses Course in TMS by the Clinical TMS Society (CTMSS)

    • Palo Alto VA TMS training

    • American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists, and Practitioners (ASKP3) Mastering the Essentials Workshop

  • Natalie Lomayesva, Ethan Solomon, Chanae Hardamon, Lucy Lan, Parnika Saxena. 2024. Letter to the Editor. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Clozapine Augmentation in an Older Adult with Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features. The Journal of ECT. 2025 Jan; The Journal of ECT

    Lucy Lan, Kristin Raj, Machendra Bhati. 2023. Chapter 2- Proposed Curriculum for an Interventional Psychiatry Fellowship Program. Interventional Psychiatry. 2024 Apr; https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-18496-3.00002-1

    TJ Ford, Derrick M. Buchanan, Azeezat Azeez, David A. Benrimoh, Irakali Kaloiani, Igor D. Bandeira, Saron Hunegnaw, Lucy Lan, Mia Gholmieh, Vivek Buch, Nolan Williams. 2023. Taking Modern Psychiatry into the Metaverse: Integrating Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality Technologies into Psychiatric Care. Frontiers in Digital Health, 2023 Mar; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1146806

    Lucy Lan, Jennifer Sikov, Julia Lejeune, Chelsea Ji, Hannah Brown, Andrea Spencer. 2023. A Systematic Review of AR/VR in Psychosis. Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 2023 Jun; https://rdcu.be/deyUg

    Lucy Lan, Sonal Jain, Kushani Patel, Katherine Crist, Christina Borba. 2021. Perspectives on Global Women’s Mental Health. Psychiatric Times, 2022 Jan; https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/perspectives-on-global-womens-mental-health

    • International Society for ECT and Neuromodulation (ISEN)

    • American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists, and Practitioners (ASKP3)

    • American Psychiatric Association

    • Nevada Psychiatric Association

    • Massachusetts Medical Society

    • Treatment-resistant mood disorders

    • Women’s mental health

    • Asian-American, “third culture”, cross-cultural mental health

    • Transitional Age (college, graduate school, young professional) mental health

    • Dating and relationship counseling