Patrick is in the sixth year of his PhD at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As a member of David Linden’s lab, he focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying neuroplasticity and their translational applications across a broad spectrum of pathologies from injury and degeneration to mood and neuropsychiatric disorders. His current research seeks to understand and characterize the regenerative potential of the adult mammalian brain.

Patrick is an avid member of the Hopkins and greater Baltimore community. He served as the President of Pro-Bono consulting for the Johns Hopkins Graduate Consulting Club where he sourced client companies and connected them with diverse teams of graduate students to solve business strategy related problems. He also co-founded a charitable non-profit, the Baltimore Electronic Collective, with a mission of providing a platform for and promoting local music artists. Outside of work he enjoys hiking, cooking, and mixing music.

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HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT YOU HOPE TO SEE IN YOUR LIFETIME

I would love to see technical and systematic advancements in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of neuropsychiatric and mood disorders.

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GREATEST IMPACT IN TECH/HEALTH

Open-source version control systems such as Git.

Continued advancements in computational resources that enable critical scientific techniques from NGS and expression profiling to neuroinformatics.

MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTENT READ LAST YEAR

Mustards by Cindy Pawlcyn and The Wok by Kenji Lopez-Alt. Two cookbooks that have re-inspired my sense of creativity in the kitchen.