Lane M. Cook, M.D. was born and raised in East Texas, educated in Louisiana at LSU and LSU Medical School, then returned to Texas for his residency. He completed his psychiatry residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, then stayed on as an assistant clinical professor in the psychiatry department and was the Chief of Emergency Psychiatry at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston. He moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1983. Married with 2 adult children, he divides his time between living and working in the Knoxville area and a new grandson in Nashville. He worked at a residential substance abuse treatment facility, Cornerstone of Recovery, as Chief of Psychiatry in Louisville, TN for 14 years until 2021 and still maintains his private practice in Knoxville, TMS of Knoxville. He was the first psychiatrist in Knoxville to open a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation clinic and has been active providing TMS help for over 300 treatment-resistant depression patients over 10 years. Dr. Cook enjoys lecturing and is the most frequent local lecturer at the annual Mental Health Association of East Tennessee’s Fall Psychiatric Symposium with his latest presentation on Neuromodulation. He also instructs and is a preceptor for LMU’s Caylor School of Nursing Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program. He presented on Neuromodulation for the Quillen School of Medicine Psychiatry Grand Rounds in 2021 and on Anxiety Disorders at the 25th Annual Louis A. Cancerello Primary Care Conference/Quillen School of Medicine in Johnson City in 2023. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry.