Brendan Adkinson

Brendan Adkinson is an MD-PhD candidate who completed his PhD in the Multimodal Imaging, Neuroinformatics, & Data Science (MINDS) Lab. His research is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and evaluates how rural under representation in healthcare AI training data leads to poorer performance (e.g., incorrect recommendations) in rural settings. Another line of work builds machine learning models that use human neuroimaging (e.g., MRI) data to predict individual psychiatric symptom profiles.

Brendan has authored and co-authored papers published in leading scientific journals, including Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Mental Health, Nature Methods, and Biological Psychiatry. His research has been featured at national and international conferences, and he has served as a speaker and panelist at venues including the AI in Healthcare Summit and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Brisbane, Australia.

Before matriculating at Yale, Brendan graduated summa cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from Marietta College, where he was a letterman on the varsity football team and captain of the varsity tennis team. Outside of the classroom, Brendan has been an active member of Vox Church, served as an advisor to Cocoa360 (cocoa360.org), and founded a social enterprise funded by VentureWell and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking that supports students who are underrepresented in medicine.