Angela Ianni MD/DPhil

I completed my graduate training through the NIH MD/PhD program, where I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2018 and MD from the University of California, San Diego in 2020. My DPhil mentors were Karen Berman at the National Institutes of Health and Tim Behrens at the University of Oxford. I studied the effect of dopamine on the neural coding of reward-based learning and decision-making using behavioral modeling of reward-guided decision-making and dopamine PET neuroimaging measures. I moved to Pittsburgh in 2020 to start residency training in psychiatry. I started working in Dr. Dombrovski’s lab in July 2021 as part of the Psychiatry Research Program, which allows for protected research time during residency. My project in the lab is characterizing the link between explore-exploit decision-making and suicidal behavioral in individuals with late life depression using behavioral modeling and fMRI.