Bradford Martins, MD/PhD

Bradford (Brad) Martins was born in Gloucester,Massachusetts and grew up in Conway, Arkansas. He attended Hendrix College in Arkansas where he graduated with a BA in biochemistry and molecular biology and a minor in neuroscience. As an undergraduate he performed neuroimaging research at University of Southern California to study the development of psychopathic traits in adolescents. Brad then began the MD/PhD program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and after completing preclinical training for his MD degree he joined the Brain Imaging Research Center within the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute. His dissertation work used computational fMRI networks and machine learning to identify unique functional changes that occur in individuals with dual drug use disorder and other psychiatric diagnoses. Brad has additionally served as board president for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Arkansas, founded a local non-profit in Little Rock called the Mind Coalition, and is currently a board member of the CT ACLU. Brad is now a PGY-3 NRTP psychiatry resident at Yale and is pursuing addiction psychiatry with the goal of using psychedelics to develop longer-lasting and more effective treatments and therapies for individuals with substance use disorders.