Rate My Professor Anna Lembke

Anna Lembke is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she serves as Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She completed an internship at Alameda County Highland Hospital Internal Medicine Residency and a psychiatry residency at Stanford University. Dr. Lembke is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Her clinical and academic work centers on addiction medicine, encompassing prescription drug misuse and addiction, pain and addiction, and behavioral addictions such as gaming, gambling, sex, and shopping. In 2016 she published the book Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop with Johns Hopkins University Press. Her 2021 book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, published by Dutton/Penguin Random House, became a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. Dr. Lembke has authored more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She has testified before committees of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, serves on boards of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, and appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. She maintains an active clinical practice and speaking schedule while holding additional appointments including Medical Director of the Taube Youth Addiction Initiative.