Brendan Adkinson

Brendan Adkinson is an MD-PhD candidate who completed his PhD in the Multimodal Imaging, Neuroinformatics, & Data Science (MINDS) Lab. His research focuses on building machine learning models that predict individual psychiatric symptom profiles from human neuroimaging (e.g., MRI) data. He also evaluates how these models may perform differently in patient populations that are underrepresented in artificial intelligence (AI) training data, particularly rural populations. His work is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).

Brendan has authored and co-authored papers published in leading scientific journals, including Nature Human Behavior, Nature Mental Health, Nature Methods, and Biological Psychiatry. His research has been featured at national and international conferences, such as 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 startups funded by VentureWell and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking that support students who are underrepresented in medicine.