Self-Healing Via Brain Homeostasis
Thu, Jan 02
|Google Meet
Speaker: Whitney McFadden


Time & Location
Jan 02, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM PST
Google Meet
About the event
Our invited guest speaker Dr. Whitney McFadden is an innovative psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and Founder of Willow MindHealth, a pioneering program-based model for mental and physical health integrating cellular and psychological medical manifestations of disease to treat root causes holistically.
Dr. McFadden's journey into psychiatry was inspired by her father, a passionate psychiatrist who instilled in her a love for biology and the joy of a fulfilling career. She earned her degree in molecular and cell biology with an emphasis on neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, an pursued her medical education at the University of California, San Diego. Driven by a passion for research, she completed her psychiatry residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, engaging in deep studies of neuroscience, including brain cells and schizophrenia genetics. After graduating, she worked at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Genetics with Dr. George Church, studying…