Mitchell B Slapik
MD/PhD Candidate & NIH Fellow @ McGovern Medical School
I am an MD/PhD candidate at McGovern Medical School, where I am supported by an NIH F30 Fellowship and a Translational and Clinical Science Predoctoral Fellowship. My research sits at the intersection of computational neuroscience, machine learning, and psychiatry, driven by a long-term goal of developing quantitative tools to improve how psychiatric disorders are understood and treated.
My dissertation, "Vision: More than Meets the Eye," investigates parallels between biological and artificial intelligence in the visual system. Before my PhD, I studied philosophy at Swarthmore College and spent three years at Johns Hopkins studying how the motor system contributes to cognition. My work has been published in Neural Computation, Journal of Vision, and Cerebellum, with an additional paper under review at Nature Neuroscience.
Currently, I am applying to research-track psychiatry residency programs to continue this urgent work at the boundary between the mind, brain, and clinical care.