Mitchell B Slapik

I am an MD/PhD candidate at McGovern Medical School, supported by an NIH F30 Fellowship and a TL1 Translational and Clinical Science Predoctoral Fellowship. My dissertation, Vision: More than Meets the Eye, examines parallels between biological and artificial intelligence in the visual system. My work has been published in Neural Computation, Journal of Vision, and Cerebellum, with an additional manuscript under review at Nature Neuroscience.

Before my doctoral training, I studied philosophy at Swarthmore College and spent three years at Johns Hopkins investigating how the motor system shapes cognition. This trajectory from philosophy to clinical neuroscience to computational modeling reflects a sustained interest in understanding the mind through quantitative frameworks.

I am applying to research-track psychiatry residency programs to develop computational approaches that advance the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.