Research Resident
Duke University
I am a psychiatry resident interested in bridging the translational gap between basic science and clinical practice. I am particularly interested in identifying biomarkers that allow us to look at psychiatric diseases in biologically meaningful ways rather than the traditional method of phenotypic clustering. Having attended an ecologically focused undergraduate university, my views of animal behavior (including humans) are colored by ethology and evolution. My additional training as a current psychiatry resident has given me a unique position to observe a wide range of human behaviors. During medical school, I worked with a multi-disciplinary translational team investigating brain activity in mice during specific behaviors at a network-level. As a resident, I am working with human EEG and eye-tracking data in a current study of children with autism and anxiety with the hopes of identifying meaningful biomarkers and possibly subtypes of autism. My interest in translation is not just in the science itself, but also in strengthening the bidirectional flow of information between scientists and clinicians by working in both worlds and mentoring those who are also interested in careers as a physician-scientist.
