Dr Lake completed his M.D. at the University of California, Irvine in 1992, and returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue residency training in psychiatry at Stanford University Hospital. During residency his chief interests included cultural psychiatry, non-Western treatments of psychiatric disorders; the philosophy of psychiatry; and consciousness studies. Currently, his principle interests include evidence-based uses of herbs and other natural products as treatments of psychiatric disorders; Chinese medical psychiatry; developing algorithms for evidence-based integrative treatment-planning in psychiatry; and uses of emerging modalities including EEG biofeedback and virtual reality exposure therapy in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

He has been an attending physician at the Complementary Medicine Clinic, Stanford University Hospital, and currently has a small private practice in Pacific Grove, where he combines psychotherapy and evidence-based Western and complementary treatments for the spectrum of psychiatric disorders. Dr. Lake is a co-author, with Bob Flaws, of Chinese Medical Psychiatry: A Clinical Manual, and numerous articles and book chapters on complementary medicine in psychiatry.

Dr. James Lake, MD