Jacob Lister, MD/PhD

I was born at Yale-New Haven Hospital, grew up in Guilford, CT, andwent to high school in New Haven, before my family moved to Dallas, TX for eight years. I went to college in Middlebury, Vermont, and lived at various points in Istanbul, Boston, Colorado, Montreal, New York, and Dallas, before returning to New Haven in 2012. I studied philosophy and Middle Eastern political history as an undergraduate. I spent a year and half trying my hand at creative writing, before having an epiphany that I wanted to go to medical school. While taking my pre-medical courses, primarily at UT Dallas, I did clinical research in pediatric depression with Graham Emslie, MD, and then worked in a basic science laboratory studying schizophrenia with Carol Tamminga, MD, both at UT Southwestern. In medical school, I did my graduate research in the laboratory of Michael Crair, PhD, using in vivo wide-field imaging to study genes involved in cortical circuit development and neuropsychiatric disorders. During residency, I plan to apply analytic approaches for assessing large-scale brain dynamics to pediatric psychiatry, especially in the context of schizophrenia, depression, and suicidality. I am particularly interested in “interventional” treatments, including ketamine, rTMS, and ECT, and how these approaches can be integrated with psychotherapeutic techniques to maximize their potential and sustain clinical response. Outside of medicine, my interests include playing and watching soccer, dancing to live music, reading and writing, medical school theater, and spending time with family and friends, old and new.