Dr. Sultan A. Lakhani MD

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Dual certified Psychiatrist Dr. Sultan A. Lakhani with Bon Secours Behavioral Health Group. Additionally, he is certified by the Memorial Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Medical Center, St. Mary's Hospital, and the Richmond Community Hospital.

Bon Secours Mercy Health’s Mission and values come from the compassionate ministries established more than 150 years ago. It is their goal to be of service to all who need our care and help, especially the poor, underserved and dying. Their dedication to excellence and service drives them to continually enhance the way that health care is delivered, promoting new levels of health care safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Their physicians, nurses and health care givers embrace the calling entrusted to them, providing compassionate healing and service as modeled by our foundresses.

Dr. Lakhani graduated with his medical degree from the University of Karachi, Dow Medical College in Pakistan. He then completed his Master of Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. After obtaining his medical degree, he completed his psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Dr. Lakhani is dual certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, as well as Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to serving the public interest and the professions of psychiatry and neurology by promoting excellence in practice through certification and maintenance of certification processes. The American Board of Preventive Medicine was established to promote the health and safety of the American people through our high standards in the certification and maintenance of certification in the profession of preventive health.

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