Joseph J. Taylor, MD, PhD, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has accepted the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.
The fellowship is operated through the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. It is a two-year training program (with an optional third year) that includes seed funding for research as well as clinical and research mentorship by faculty in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry.
Taylor, one of two program-wide chief residents in psychiatry at Yale, will start the fellowship on July 1, 2019.
Taylor’s clinical and research interests are in Interventional Psychiatry, an emerging subspecialty in which procedural techniques are used to treat symptoms that have been refractory to standard therapies and medications.
“I focus on invasive and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques that can be used to map and modulate neural networks” he said. “I am particularly interested in using imaging and physiological techniques to characterize disease states, predict treatment response, and optimize treatment strategies."
One of Taylor’s career goals is to operate a clinical and research service like the Interventional Psychiatry Service at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital that offers approved and experimental treatments.