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Dr. Mikell grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and went to Princeton for college, where he graduated with a degree in comparative literature, focusing on medieval Spanish texts. He attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. While a student, he completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship, and was named a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He joined the Columbia University Medical Center department of Neurological Surgery as a resident in 2009, and received a $140,000 Janssen Translational Neurosciences Fellowship to study dopamine function in patients, in pursuit of potential neurosurgical therapies for schizophrenia. His interests include neurosurgery for psychiatric disease, epilepsy surgery, and surgery for movement disorders. He also hopes to use neurosurgery for psychiatric and movement disorders to advance understanding of the neural correlates of thinking and feeling.
