Lana Prieur is an MD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine (Class of 2028) in the Clinician Leadership in Quality & Safety scholarly concentration, building on a summa cum laude Psychology degree with Chemistry and Neuroscience minors from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her professional experience spans clinical research coordination at the Perelman School of Medicine’s Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders Center, where she coordinated multiple study trials and performed phlebotomy and ongoing neurology research at UNC, including a case report on lymphoma mimicking neurosarcoidosis; and applied clinical AI work as a TeleSpecialist Neurology Research Intern developing evaluation methods for transcriptional AI used in neurology visits as part of the Carolina Medical Student Research Program.
Her earlier research with Penn’s Platt Labs examined leadership, physiological synchrony, and social decision-making, leading to peer-reviewed publications in Frontiers in Psychology (2023) and Mindfulness (2025). She holds leadership roles in UNC SOM organizations (Student Interest Group in Neurology; Student Health Action Coalition; John B. Graham Research Society) and sustains more than a decade of community engagement through the Special Olympics.
