Lydia Ann

Biography

Lydia Ann, M.D., is a Geriatric Psychiatrist at the University of California, Irvine, where she provides psychiatric and dementia care in outpatient clinics and has established collaborative care clinics with geriatricians. She completed her Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2023, following her Psychiatry Residency at the University of California, Irvine. Ann received her M.D. from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 2018.

Ann's research focuses on modifiable risk factors in cognitive decline, particularly examining the roles of sleep disorders, polypharmacy, and cultural characteristics. She completed the Physician Scientist Certificate Course at UCI and collaborates with the UCI MIND institute on clinical data collection and analysis. Her work has resulted in multiple publications examining the intersection of sleep and cognitive performance in older adults, including research on positional obstructive sleep apnea and benzodiazepine receptor agonist use.

Ann has presented her research at national conferences including the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Conference and Sleep 2024. She served as Panel Chair for "Advancing Care in Geriatric Psychiatry: Updates in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Clinical Practice" at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology in 2025. In addition to her clinical and research work, Ann is involved in teaching psychiatry residents and geriatric medicine fellows through residency clinics and collaborative care settings.

Education

• B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
• M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, 2018

Distinctions

• American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry Scholar Program David Steffens Scholarship, 2021
• Gold Humanism Resident Award Nominee, 2020
• UCLA Regents Scholar Honorarium recipient: top 1.5% of applicants, 2010-present