Sean C. Lucan, MD, MPH, MS 

Dr. Sean Lucan is a practicing family physician in the Bronx, NY treating children and adults in the Montefiore Health System.  He is also an award-winning public-health researcher--at Albert Einstein College of Medicine--who has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and commentaries on food-related issues.  Additionally, Dr. Lucan has co-authored one textbook on nutrition and another on biostatistics, epidemiology, preventive medicine, and public health.

Dr. Lucan earned his MD and MPH degrees at Yale before completing residency training in Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania.  After residency, he completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, where he earned an MS in Health Policy Research.  Dr. Lucan was a fellow at the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) from 2016 to 2018.

A focus of Dr. Lucan's research is how different aspects of urban food environments influence what people eat, and what the implications are for obesity and chronic diseases.  Another focus of his work is the critical examination of both clinical guidance and public-health initiatives related to nutrition.

Dr. Lucan was PI on a new-investigator grant from the New York State Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program and PI on a training grant from the Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (“Translating nutritional knowledge to community dietary practices & improved health: the role of neighborhood food environments”). Dr. Lucan is PI on an NIH/NICHD-funded study: “Local food sources around home and school and adolescent dietary intake.”