Sam Vesuna

About

I am a 4th year research-track psychiatry resident at Stanford. I am a chief-resident and work as an emergency psychiatrist at a county hospital. I have clinical interest medication management and psychotherapy for anxiety/depression, bipolar disorder and disorders of self. I completed additional training psychedelic-assisted therapies. In the lab, I specialize in brain-spanning activity screens coupled with detailed mechanistic experiments in human and rodents. As a resident, I helped start Stanford’s Human Neural Circuitry Research (HNC) program and currently develop methods for human neuroscience. Read more::program: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/12/human-neural-circuitry.htmlmost recent paper: https://www-science-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt3971original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2731-9origin story: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/real-time-brain-data/

Country

United States

City

Stanford

Industry

Research

Skill

Education

Stanford University School of Medicine

Psychiatry Residency Program

2022-6 - 2026-6 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Human Neural Circuitry (HNC) Program: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/12/human-neural-circuitry.html First HNC paper: I. Kauvar*, E. Richman*, T.X. Liu*, C. Li, S. Vesuna, A. Chibukhchyan, ... L.M. Williams, B.D. Heifets, J.M. Henderson, J.A. McNab, C. Rodriguez, V. Buch, P. Nuyujukian, K. Deisseroth. Conserved brain-wide emergency of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice. Science 2025. Outstanding Resident Award, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, MD Trailblazing Trainee Award–independently awarded research funding, Dept. of Psychiatry, Stanford University

UC Irvine

2012 - 2022 · 10 yrs

Awards and Scholarships: Dean’s Four-Year Merit Scholarship, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

Stanford University

Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering

2014 - 2020-4 · 6 yrs

Karl Deisseroth lab graduate student, specialized in brain-wide, large-scale screens of brain activity, physiology and molecular mechanisms in rodents and human. Krishna Shenoy and Scott Delp lab rotation student. Selected papers: E. Sylwestrak*, Y. Jo*, S. Vesuna*, X. Wang, B. Holcomb, R. Tien, D.K. Kim, L. Fenno, C. Ramakrishnan, W.E. Allen, R. Chen, K.V. Shenoy, D. Susillo, K. Deisseroth. Cell type-specific population dynamics of diverse reward computations. Cell. 2022. selected as journal cover S. Vesuna*, I. Kauvar*, E. Richman, F. Gore, T. Oskotsky, C. Sava-Segal, R.C. Malenka, J.M. Henderson, P. Nuyujukian, J. Parvizi, K. Deisseroth, Deep posteromedial cortical rhythm in dissociation . Nature. 2020. Dissertation: Neural circuitry of self-self and self-non-self interaction. Sammy Kuo Neuroscience Award (NSF GFRP) National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Research Program

Yale University

Biomedical Engineering

2008 - 2012 · 4 yrs

D. Bromley Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering, Yale Commencement Award, 2012 Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize, for commitment to public service, Yale Commencement Award, 2012 John C. Schroeder Award, for community and public service, Yale University, 2011 Yale University Science and Engineering Grant, 2011 Yale University Dean’s Science Scholar Research Fellowship, 2011 Yale University Biomedical Engineering Research Fellowship, 2011 Yale University Biomedical Engineering Research Fellowship, 2010

Los Altos High School

LAHS Commencement Awards: 1. Valedictorian 2. Eagle Award Frank Livermore Eagle Scout scholarship, 2008-2012 Rambus Innovator of the Future Scholarship 2008-2012 Eagle Scout, Troop 37