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Elana Miller, MD

Medical Advisory Board · Healthspan

Integrative psychiatrist and Healthspan co-founder whose cancer survivorship shaped the company's longevity focus

Mental HealthCancer Prevention & ScreeningFunctional MedicineEnglish
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About

Elana Miller, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and founder of Zen Psychiatry in Playa Del Rey, California. She studied psychology at Harvard, earned her MD with highest honors from USC Keck School of Medicine, and completed psychiatry residency at UCLA. Her clinical work blends medication management, psychotherapy, functional nutrition, mind-body care, and plant-based approaches. A two-time lymphoma survivor treated with stem cell transplant and rapamycin, Miller helped inspire Healthspan's founding and now serves on its Medical Advisory Board.

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What to Know

Signature approach

Miller's clinical style combines conventional psychiatry with integrative tools. In her own practice, medication management and therapy sit alongside nutrition, supplementation, mind-body work, and chronic-illness context. At Healthspan, that experience adds a survivorship and mental-health lens to protocol design, especially where sleep, stress, diagnosis recovery, and long-term adherence shape outcomes.

What sets them apart

  • Physician and patient perspective. Miller's own lymphoma treatment and rapamycin experience give her an unusually personal connection to Healthspan's mTOR-centered origin story.
  • Psychiatry on a longevity advisory board. She brings mental health, survivorship, sleep, stress, and adherence context to a board otherwise oriented around functional and performance medicine.
  • Integrative private practice. Zen Psychiatry shows the same blend of conventional medicine and whole-person support that informs her advisory role.

Before You Book

  • Healthspan role. Miller advises on protocols; member care comes through assigned physicians and PhD-level coaches.
  • Direct clinical work. Her treating practice is Zen Psychiatry in Playa Del Rey and is separate from a Healthspan membership.
  • Fit. Her public clinical style is integrative psychiatry, pairing medication with nutrition, mind-body work, and functional approaches.

Expertise

Focus areas

Mental HealthCancer Prevention & ScreeningFunctional Medicine

Patient types

Post-Cancer PatientsWomen in Perimenopause & MenopauseGeneral Adult Longevity

Protocols & technologies

Rapamycin (personal experience, advisory role)Mtor inhibition researchIntegrative psychiatryFunctional nutritionMind Body medicineMedication management

Conditions treated

4
  • Anxiety that won't let up

    Generalized anxiety disorder

  • Depression that medications alone haven't fixed

    Treatment-resistant depression

  • Trauma from a serious illness or diagnosis

    PTSD / adjustment disorder

  • Navigating life after cancer treatment

    Cancer survivorship / post-cancer mental health

Credentials

Education

  • MD

    Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (2010)

  • BA, Psychology

    Harvard University (2004)

Board certifications

  • Psychiatry

    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

    Board-certified psychiatrist trained to diagnose and treat mental health conditions with medication, therapy, and integrative approaches.

Residency

  • Psychiatry

    UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine / UCLA Medical Center

NPI

1497073142

Affiliations

Scientific Advisor

Thought Leadership

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