Lana Charlene Lee, MD | Kaiser Permanente

Mental Health

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Geriatric psychiatry subspecialist Dr. Lana Charlene Lee practices in Point Loma at Kaiser Permanente's Kenyon Street facility near the Pechanga Arena corridor, treating adult and elderly members with mood, anxiety, and cognitive-decline disorders. Her geriatric focus addresses the intersection of psychiatric symptoms and medical comorbidities in aging patients—dementia-related behavioral disturbance, late-life depression, and medication sensitivity—a specialized caseload that cross-refers with general psychiatrists including Elaine Mayumi Yoshimoto, MD in the Kenyon department. A Rutgers New Jersey Medical School graduate, Lee speaks English and Spanish and relocated from the New York metropolitan area to complete her San Diego psychiatry training before joining Kaiser's Southern California Permanente Medical Group. Her prescribing approach accounts for the polypharmacy realities of geriatric patients who often carry simultaneous cardiac, endocrine, and neurological medication regimens that interact with psychotropics. Community psychiatric resources supplement Kaiser's in-network capacity for members needing intensive outpatient or ketamine-assisted therapy, with referrals routed to providers including Point Loma Clinic on the peninsula. The most complex geriatric cases involve differentiating early dementia from late-life depression when cognitive screening scores overlap, requiring serial neuropsychological testing, caregiver collateral, and medication washout trials.

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