Elana Miller, MD
Medical Advisory Board · Healthspan
Integrative psychiatrist and Healthspan co-founder whose cancer survivorship shaped the company's longevity focus
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
Patient types
Protocols & technologies
Conditions treated
4Anxiety 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
Media Appearances
- Rapamycin and Longevity · The Washington Post · 2024-03-15
- Could a Drug Used in Organ Transplants Slow Aging? · NewsNation · 2024-10-08
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