Anna Lembke, MD

Anna Lembke, MD

Psychiatrist


Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult)

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Additional Languages Spoken:
German , Mandarin

Biography


Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine.

In 2016, she published "Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018).

Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.

Her latest book, "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 30 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of recovery to explore the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

Professional Summary


Education & Certifications
  • Board Certification: American Board of Preventive Medicine, Addiction Medicine (2021)
  • Medical Education: Stanford University School of Medicine (1995) CA
  • Residency: Stanford University Adult Psychiatry Residency (2001) CA
  • Residency: Stanford University Adult Psychiatry Residency (1998) CA
  • Internship: Alameda County Highland Hospital Internal Medicine Residency (1996) CA
  • Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Psychiatry (2003)

Honors & Awards
  • Chairman’s Clinical Innovation Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (2015)
  • Distinguished Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship, University of Kansas School of Medicine (2018)
  • Distinguished Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (2021)
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Evanston Township High School, Evanston, IL (2018)
  • Distinguished Baldwin Lecturer, The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) (2019)
  • Distinguished Crowley Lecturer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University (2019)
  • Distinguished Evelyn G. Keever Bioethics Day Lecturer, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia (2019)
  • Distinguished Flexner’s Dean Lecturer, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (2018)
  • Distinguished James Platt White Memorial Lecturer, Buffalo, New York OB/GYN Society (2019)
  • Distinguished Marcel Malden Lecturer, Tacoma, Washington (2018)
  • Distinguished Tector Lecturer, 69th Annual Course for Family Physicians, Montreal, Canada (2019)
  • Distinguished University of Tampa Honors Symposium Lecturer, University of Tampa, Florida (2019)
  • Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Johns Hopkins Bayview, Department of Internal Medicine (2017)
  • Excellence in Academic Teaching, Stanford University School of Medicine (2014)
  • Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine (2013)
  • Fellowship Training Directors Award, American Society of Addiction Medicine (2020)
  • Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Humanitarian Kelly Clark Spirit Award, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Portland, Oregon (2020)
  • Irma Bland MD Certificate of Excellence in Teaching Residents, American Psychiatric Association (2020)
  • Laughlin Fellowship, American College of Psychiatrists (2002)
  • Outstanding Contributor to Community Life, Yale University (1989)
  • Outstanding Research in Severe Mental Illness, American Psychiatric Association (2000)
  • Outstanding Research in Severe Mental Illness, Janssen Scholar (1999)
  • Outstanding Teacher in Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine (1995)
  • Summa cum laude in Humanities, Yale University (1989)
  • Travel Scholarship, Alcohol Medical Scholars Program (2009)
  • Travel Scholarship, Association of Medical Education, Research, Substance Abuse (2011)
  • Travel Scholarship, Medical Education and Research Foundation (MERF) (2000)
  • Yale-China Fellowship, Yale University (1989)

Administrative Appointments
  • Chief, Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
  • Medical Director, Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
  • Medical Director, Taube Youth Addiction Initiative (2020 - Present)
  • Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University (2013 - Present)

Publications

Specializing In

  • Addiction Disorders
  • Anxiety
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Pain
  • Psychoanalytic Treatment
  • Psychotherapy
  • Schizophrenia
  • Urine Toxicology

Practice Locations


Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA

401 Quarry Road

Stanford , CA 94304

(650) 498-9111

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Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic in Palo Alto Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA

401 Quarry Road

Stanford , CA 94304

(650) 498-9111

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