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Katy Lunny

Katy Lunny

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor Step II, UC Irvine Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Biography

Katy Lunny, M.D., is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor Step II in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her Doctor of Medicine at UC Irvine School of Medicine in 2019, followed by psychiatry residency training at UC Irvine, where she served as Chief Resident from 2022 to 2023. She completed a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Southern California/Los Angeles General Medical Center in 2024. Lunny is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and holds medical licenses in California and Wisconsin.

Lunny's clinical and research interests focus on addiction medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry. Prior to medical school, she worked for five years as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the UCLA Addictions Laboratory, where she contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications examining alcohol and substance use disorders, including studies on treatment outcomes, pharmacological interventions, and the relationship between methamphetamine and alcohol use. During medical school, she co-founded the Addiction Medicine Interest Group at UC Irvine and served as Region 6 Chair of the Psychiatry Student Interest Group Network.

At UC Irvine, Lunny is on the Clinical Informatics team and serves on the Psychiatry Residency Selection Committee and Clinical Competency Committee. Lunny is a member of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, and the California Psychiatric Society. She has presented at national conferences on topics including addiction care integration in consultation-liaison practice and emergency psychiatric care for patients with non-verbal autism.

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Education

  • B.S. in Psychobiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2010
  • M.D., University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine, 2019
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Distinctions

  • The Sterling Staph Award, presented by medical students to a resident in recognition of their excellence in teaching, 2022
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Areas of Expertise

  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  • Perinatal Mental Health
  • Emergency Psychiatry

Recent Publications

  • K. Lunny, E. Lee, C. Cookson, “Advocating for Those Who Can't: Emergency Psychiatric Care of Patients With Non-Verbal Autism”, 2025. Presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
  • K. Lunny, L. Ann, G. Espejo, F. Khorassani, H. Oughli, D. Okobi, “Advancing Care in Geriatric Psychiatry: Updates in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Clinical Practice”, 2025. Presented at American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ.
  • K. Lunny, G. Gorraiz, N. Guillery, M. Fukui, “Equity in Action: The Consultant's Role in Guiding Primary Teams Through Implicit Bias”, 2025. Presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
  • K. Lunny, J. Suzuki, S. Sidelnik, G. Winder, “Less Aspiration and More Implementation: How to Successfully Integrate Addiction Care into My Consultation-Liaison Practice”, 2024. Presented at Academy of Consultation-Liaison Annual Conference, Miami, FL.
  • M. Crawford, D. Cohrs, K. Lunny, C. Bryant, “A Duet of Delusion: A Case of Folie a Deux During Pandemic Isolation”, 2024. Presented at Academy of Consultation-Liaison Annual Conference, Miami, FL.
  • K. Lunny, M. Lovio, B. Afghani, “Understanding perceived barriers to becoming a physician: comparison of underrepresented and non-underrepresented high school students attending a summer premedical program”, 2018. Presented at Western Medical Research Conference, Carmel, CA.
  • Lunny, K, Federoff, M, Seegan, A., “Antipsychotic-induced gastrointestinal dysfunction: a common yet often overlooked side effect”, 2018. Presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
  • Roche, D.J., Yardley, M.M., Lunny, K.F., Louie, S.G., Davies, D.L., Miotto, K., Ray, L.A., “A pilot study of the safety and initial efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of alcohol use disorder”, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1312-1320, 2016.
  • Ray, L.A., Bujarski, S., Courtney, K.E., Moallem, N.R., Lunny, K., Roche, D., Leventhal, A.M., Shoptaw, S., Heinzerling, K., London, E.D., Miotto, K., “The effects of naltrexone on subjective response to methamphetamine in a clinical sample: a double-blind, placebo-controlled laboratory study”, Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 2347, 2015.
  • Bacio, G.A., Lunny, K.F., Webb, J.N., Ray, L.A., “Alcohol use following an alcohol challenge and a brief intervention among alcohol-dependent individuals”, The American Journal on Addictions, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 96-101, 2014.
  • Bujarski, S., Roche, D.J., Lunny, K., Moallem, N.R., Courtney, K.E., Allen, V., Hartwell, E., Leventhal, A., Rohrbaugh, T., Ray, L.A., “The relationship between methamphetamine and alcohol use in a community sample of methamphetamine users”, Drug and alcohol dependence, vol. 142, pp. 127-132, 2014.
  • K.E. Courtney, D.G. Ghahremani, S. Bujarski, K. Lunny, L.A. Ray, “Measuring prediction error-related brain activation using alcohol as a rewarding stimuli”, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 38, 2014. Presented at Research Society on Alcoholism, Bellevue, WA.
  • Bujarski, S.E., O'Malley, S.S., Lunny, K., Ray, L.A., “The effects of drinking goal on treatment outcome for alcoholism”, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 81, no. 1, pp. 13-22, 2013.
  • Ray, L.A., Lunny, K., Bujarski, S., Moallem, N., Krull, J.L., Miotto, K., “The effects of varenicline on stress-induced and cue-induced craving for cigarettes”, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 131, no. 1-2, pp. 136-142, 2013.
  • K.F. Lunny, G.A. Bacio, J.N. Webb, A. Heydari, I.Y. Guzman, L.A. Ray, “Single session of motivational interviewing for non-treatment seeking alcohol dependent patients: An open label trial”, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 36, 2012. Presented at Research Society on Alcoholism, San Francisco, California.
  • S.E. Bujarski, R.C. Arellano, E. Chang, A. Heydari, K.E. Courtney, N.R. Moallem, M.A. Tartter, P.F. Chin, A. Heydari, K.F. Lunny, Z.N. Williams, L.A. Ray, “The effects of alcoholism chronicity and treatment goal on outcomes in the COMBINE Study”, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 35, 2011. Presented at Research Society on Alcoholism, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • P.F. Chin, K.F. Lunny, A. Heydari, S.E. Bujarski, J.R. Ashenhurst, M.A. Tartter, E.J. Hart, L.P. Greenburg, L.A. Ray, “The self-rating of the effects of alcohol (SRE): Reliability, validity, factor structure, and administration methods”, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 34, 2010. Presented at Research Society on Alcoholism, San Antonio, Texas.
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Contact Information

Email: klunny@hs.uci.edu

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Last updated on 10/30/2026.