Scott A. Wilke, MD, PhD

Scott A. Wilke, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on the structure and function of neural circuits related to neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Wilke holds a BS in neurobiology from the University of Washington and earned his MD and PhD in neuroscience from the Medical Scientist Training Program at UC San Diego. His doctoral thesis, completed with Dr. Anirvan Ghosh, explored activity-dependent mechanisms in the assembly of hippocampal circuits in the developing brain. Dr. Wilke completed his residency in adult psychiatry and postdoctoral research at UC San Francisco.