Profession and title:
Assistant Professor
Interests:
Spending time with his family including his recently arrived baby son, running, and CrossFit.
Brief biography:
Dr. Kieran O’Donnell is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed within the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine. Kieran leads the Health-Omics and Perinatal Epidemiology research group, which seeks to trace the early origins of mental health.
Kieran completed his BSc in Psychology (2005), at the University of Westminster in London followed by a MSc in Neuroscience (2006) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and a PhD in Clinical Medicine (2011) at the Imperial College London. He completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2016) in Social Epigenetics at the Douglas Hospital Research Center, Montreal before becoming an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University (2016) prior to his move to Yale in 2020.
Areas for involvement with Morse students:
Academic advising for first-year students
Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen
Career advising
Is there another way in which you might work with Morse students not listed above?:
As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community I would be happy to advise/discuss life in academia as a gay man (and now gay dad).
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