Dov Lerman-Sinkoff MD PhD

Dov Lerman-Sinkoff MD PhD (he/him) is a PGY3 resident in the UCLA Psychiatry Research Track interested in improving the understanding of brain-behavior relationships implicated in cognitive alterations in psychiatric illnesses and the use of neuromodulation to improve functional outcomes. He obtained his BSE in Biomedical Engineering with a focus in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He obtained his MD and PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis under the mentorship of Dr. Deanna Barch. During his PhD, he used multimodal neuroimaging methods to simultaneously decompose structural, resting state functional connectivity, and task functional MRI data and examined relationships between the identified imaging patterns and cognitive control performance in a healthy community participant sample from the Human Connectome Project and in a transdiagnostic sample of persons with psychosis. Here at UCLA, he is working with Dr. Reza Tadayon-Nejad to study decision making in obsessive-compulsive disorder and the use of non-invasive neuromodulation to alter neural activity with the goal of lessening symptom burden and improving performance.