The brain is a metabolic organ.
I work in metabolic psychiatry. My focus is simple: understand how diet and metabolism change the brain, and use that to help people with serious psychiatric illness.
I'm a Research Principal at UPMC's Western Psychiatric Hospital in the Phillips Mood & Brain Lab, where I train under the mentorship of Professor Mary L. Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab). My work combines neuroimaging, metabolic, and behavioral measures to study how interventions like the ketogenic diet and exogenous ketones alter neurobiology and clinical trajectories across psychiatric disorders.
The goal is not novelty. It's to make psychiatry more mechanistic and less speculative — and to build tools that actually work for real people. Psychiatry should involve less guesswork and more biomarkers. Right now, I'm particularly interested in neuromelanin-sensitive MRI as a proxy marker for dopamine metabolism.
MSc — King's College London, IoPPN
MA — University of London
BA — Point Park University
