As of June, 2010, Dr. Lucas is no longer with Cedar Glen.

Dr. Lucas received her board certification from The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2008 and is board certified as of 2009 in Child Adolescent Psychiatry.  She completed her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway in June 2009 where she served on the Graduate Medical Education Committee and the Residency Training Committee.  This was after graduating from the 4 year Adult General Psychiatry Residency Program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She served as Chief Resident during her fourth year of residency, participated in scholarly research and has been a co-author for a chapter for an Emergency Psychiatry textbook and medical journal articles. Dr. Lucas will be applying for a volunteer faculty position in the Division of Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to continue to teach medical students, residents and fellows.

Dr. Lucas graduated from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine.   At UNECOM she served on the executive board of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). As a medical student she was selected to attend National AMSA’s Political Leadership Institute.

Dr. Lucas attended Douglass College, Rutgers University as a Douglass Scholar and Bloustein Distinguished Scholar. She graduated with Honors in Psychology as well as with The Award for Highest Achievement in the Field of Psychology. At Rutgers she served as Treasurer and later President of the American Medical Student Association, as a Rutgers Student Health Advocate and as a preceptor in Bunting-Cobb, an award winning specialized college residence hall for women in Science, Mathematics and Engineering. Through an Externship program at Douglass College, Dr. Lucas did research at Kessler Institute in West Orange, NJ in the Department of Neuropsychology.

Today Dr. Lucas practices Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatric Medicine. She is passionate about utilizing both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy as mechanisms of change to facilitate the healing of her patients.  She does not jump to the sole use of psychiatric medications without extensive discussion of the risks versus benefits of psychopharmacologic intervention alone.  She prides herself on providing extensive education to help families and patients in this process.

 

Dr. Lucas is skilled at psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapies with children, teens and adults. She  employs motivational interviewing techniques with oppositional patients to access their own motivation and use it to fuel their own personal growth and discovery.

She is a member of The American Psychiatric Association and The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

PUBLICATIONS

Jill M.Williams, M.D., Kunal Gandhi, MBBS,MPH, Gem-Estelle Lucas, DO, Dawn A. Gonsalves, MD, Mia Hanos-Zimmermann, MPH, Magdalena Galazyn, BA and Marc L. Steinberg, PhD. “Training Psychiatrists and Advanced Practice Nurses To Treat Tobacco Dependence.” Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 1, 50-58

B. J. Diamond, J. DeLuca, D. Rosenthal,R. Vlad, K. Davis, G. Lucas, O. Noskin, and J. A. Richards. “Information Processing in Older Versus Younger Adults: Accuracy Versus Speed.” International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health, 2000, Vol. 5, No. 1, 55-64

B.J. Diamond, J. Deluca, D. Rosenthal, R. Vlad, K. Davis, G. Lucas, and S. Kelley.  “Information Processing in Older Vs. Younger Adults: Accuracy Vs. Speed,” APA Division 40 Abstracts. Page 309

Mohr, W. and Lucas, G.  “Seclusion and Restraint in Emergency Settings” Chapter XI (in press) Handbook of Emergency Psychiatry  2009 Ed. M. Riba, MD and D. Ravindrinath, MD. American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.