Program Faculty

Kathryn Irish, PhD, LMSW, CAADC

Kathryn Irish, PhD, LMSW, CAADC holds appointments as an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience at Michigan State and at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Social Work, LEO II). She has 10+ years of clinical practice experience across a diverse range of settingsincluding community mental health, private practice and methadone maintenance. She has also worked as a clinician for the U.S. Federal Criminal Justice System and held administrative roles in managed health care as a senior clinical-quality consultant. Irish has a clinical specialization in alcohol and drug treatment (CAADC) recently completed her PhD in social work at Michigan State University with a doctoral cognate in neuroscience. Her research focus is on improving interpersonal relationships, health care, inter-group relations and diplomacy through transdisciplinary research, technology and education.

 

Michael Koval, PhD

Michael graduated with a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Western Ontario where he studied the role of the prefrontal cortex in the cognitive control of behaviour. He was then a Postdoc at Duke University where he began by investigating the neurophysiology of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with Dr. Marc Sommer, then switched gears by transferring to the Psychiatry Department where he managed the Brain Stimulation Division under the supervision of Drs. Andrew Krystal, Shawn McClintock and Sarah Lisanby. Having acquired clinical experience with the Duke TMS Clinic he then ran the Brain Stimulation Clinic at the Central Health Medical Practice in Hong Kong, before ending up at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience and Director of the Neuroscience and Law Program.