BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Lucy McBride is a native Washingtonian. She attended the National Cathedral School, Princeton University, and Harvard Medical School, where she graduated with honors. She earned a Masters's Degree in Pharmacology as a 1996 Fulbright scholar at the University of Cambridge, U.K. Dr. McBride completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then spent several years in the Emergency Medicine faculty at Hopkins.

Dr. McBride has been practicing internal medicine in private practice for nearly two decades. She is passionate about evidence-based, patient-centered primary care. She believes in treating the whole patient and empowering patients with tools and evidence-based guidance to navigate mental and physical health in tandem. She considers her patients her best teachers, and the relationship with them the foundation for patients’ sense of agency over their health.

Dr. McBride has become a nationally recognized voice in addressing mental and physical health. She is the author of the popular medical newsletter, Are You Okay?, now reaching over 27 thousand people a week, and is the author of a forthcoming book about whole-person health with Simon & Schuster (due in March 2025).

She hosts a top-rated podcast called Beyond the Prescription, where she interviews guests like she does her patients, pulling the curtain back on what it means to be healthy. She has been published in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and USA Today. She has appeared on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS NewsHour, providing evidence-based medical advice, advocating for a holistic approach to health care, and helping redefine health as more than our cholesterol and weight. Health, she argues, is a process, not an outcome.

Dr. McBride is a member of the clinical staff at Sibley Memorial. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine. She lives in the District of Columbia with her husband and three children.

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