Instructor
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
I am currently an Instructor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. I graduated from Duke University with a BSE in Biomedical Engineering and Biology and went to the Unviersity of Michigan for my MD and PhD where I studied the biology of aging. After finishing medical school, I went to Yale for my psychiatry residency through their Neuroscience Research Training Program, and stayed on for a CL Fellowship.
My primary interest is in the connection between mental health, psychosocial stressors, and aging. In the past I worked with model systems to understand how stress may alter aging through neurohormonal signaling pathways, but my current research is directed toward understanding how psychological adversity, markers of biological aging, and metabolic health interact in humans. My work uses epigenetic clocks as markers of biological age, allowing us to infer whether an indvidual is biologically "older" or "younger" than their chronologic age would suggest. These tools may allow us to determine mechanistically how psychiatric treatment may (or may not) benefit healthy aging.
In addition to my research program, I also work at an outpatient psychiatrist in our Multidisciplinary Long COVID Clinic, as well as taking occasional shifts in both the ED and inpatient CL services.
WEBB FELLOW: Childhood Adversity, Accelerated GrimAge, and Associated Health Consequences
Friday, November 10, 2023
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM CST
