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Blending Art & Science in Pursuit of the Mind

Jason Compton is a resident at University of California San Diego where he earned his M.D. while focusing his studies on psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery. He decided to pursue medicine as a result of his art, which continuously returned to themes of psychopathology and the people suffering from mental illness. Jason studied painting at University of California Davis under the renowned artist David Hollowell.